Tag Archives: visit

New Zealand rugby team visit (Rousse)

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Dreamaticus

I was busy making arrangements for K, S, E and R to get into the bar at the local gym over the Easter holiday. Meanwhile GG was looking forward to the New Zealand rugby team using the same facilities.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged All Blacks, Easter, facilities, gym, holiday, New Zealand, rugby, team, visit | Leave a comment

A double birthday surprise – with Moomins (Rousse)

Posted on March 18, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The first part of my birthday treat was an afternoon spent in the luxury top apartment of the block. We simply did a switch with our landladies (one of whom was friends with David Bowie) for the weekend. While we … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged apartment, basement, birthday, David Bowie, doctorate, double, flat, garden, landladies, luxury, Moomin, Moomins, PhD, surprise, T shirts, treat, views, visit, weekend | Leave a comment

Husband’s mystery trips to Manchester while wife heads north to Inverness by foot (Rousse)

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Dreamaticus

The day that I made the round trip by car to Manchester to fix JC’s blinds I discovered that TPR had made the same trip the day before and had another planned for the next. He claimed that these visits … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged ancient, assent, blinds, bus shelter, candidate, candidates, car, civil, coach, colleague, colleagues, culvert, culverts, dangerous, decrepit, doctoral, documentation, embankment, embankments, engineering, examiner, examiners, field, foot, formal, haunted, husband, Inverness, Jim, journey, Manchester, MIles, mystery, north, Perth, PhD, Pitlochry, practice, railway, request, skills, student, students, studies, study, trip, trips, tunnels, Victorian, visit, visits, wife | Leave a comment

Tibetan monks in icy ponds, packs of dogs on snowfields, and a wrong turn to the Blairgowrie 10k (Rousse)

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Dreamaticus

NP, DT, WB and I were all running in the Blairgowrie 10K. We were supported by TPR, JM, SF, my parents and C the cocker spaniel. We drove up the A9 in separate cars. I was in the back seat … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 10k, admit, BBC, Blairgowrie, broadcast, car, cocker, council, destination, dogs, drive, estate, highland, ice, journey, line, lost, mistake, monks, mountains, outskirts, packs, parents, participate, play, ponds, race, Radio 4, run, seat, signal, snow, snowfields, spaniel, starting, Stilo, Tibetan, turn, turning, visit, wrong | Leave a comment

Presents for little girls (Rousse)

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Dreamaticus

XY’s children had no idea of the trouble that their father had caused and I saw no reason to cancel their visit. The elder girl loved the hardback book that I had made for her, even though I thought she … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bathing, bikini, book, cancel, children, clothes, costume, cover, eight, father, find, girl, girls, hardback, hate, little, photograph, present, presents, sister, suit, swimming, swimsuit, top, visit, young | Leave a comment

When “bed time” at 50th birthday celebrations means sleeping in the bath (Rousse)

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Dreamaticus

ECM made a surprise visit to Edinburgh to celebrate Baby Ted’s 50th birthday. She slept in the bath because KA had already commandeered the bed in the spare room.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 50th, bath, bed, bed time, birthday, celebration, Edinburgh, room, sleep, spare, surprise, visit | Leave a comment

A Christmas cycling trip to Cornwall (Rousse)

Posted on December 21, 2013 by Dreamaticus

This was a big treat for my mother, who had never visited Cornwall before. After a long hunt for a space, we parked our sports car in a side street, almost crushing my old red cycling helmet into the kerb … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bike, bikes, car, Christmas, clcying, Cornwall, crsuh, cycling, descent, helmet, high, kerb, low, mistake, mother, option, options, park, perpendicular, promenade, road, route, seafront, shiny, sports, steep, TPR, track, trap, treat, tree, trip, uphill, visit, white-wash | Leave a comment

A lost briefcase (Rousse)

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I could tell that AC was losing patience with me when, once again, I admitted that I had lost my briefcase. We would now miss the train to London while we looked for my belongings. Was I really to blame … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged accreditation, blame, briefcase, distracted, fun, journey, London, lost, patience, Sheffield, slide, station, train, UCL, University College London, visit | Leave a comment

David Tennant dons disguise for Dr Who day visits (Rousse)

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Dreamaticus

The timelord had landed. I knew this because I heard a clatter of footsteps as the Doctor and his crew descended the steps to our basement flat. David Tennant had made some effort to disguise himself by blackening his face, … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged assistant, basement, biscuit barrel, blacken, bleep, brother-in-law, camera, cellar, cheeks, clatter, coats, costumes, crew, Dalek, dark, David Tennant, Day of the doctor, disguise, doctor, door, dowdy, Dr Who, dressing up, Easter, equipment, face, flat, footsteps, friend, fur, hall, height, house, incognito, kiss, kisses, kitchen, make-up, middle-aged, precious, prisoner, rail, rude, screw driver, silver, sonic, steps, surprises, team, the doctor, theatre, timelord, TPR, trinkets, unlock, visit, woman | Leave a comment

A horsewoman turned financier and an injured charity boss (Rousse)

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Dreamaticus

I heard that my school friend LF (then ED) had taken a job at RA’s charity. “What’s she doing for you?” I asked. When I learnt that that L was in charge of finance I had to admit that I … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged bandage, boss, charity, climbing, Edinburgh, finance, financier, friend, horsewoman, injured, job, mathematician, Omni Centre, school, Virgin Active, visit, wall | Leave a comment