We arrive saddled up on a t-rex and slide down its tail to the bottom of the structure. There’s a great big blue wall that we have to climb to reach the pool at the top. We know that at the top of this, there’s a big pool indented at the surface with waterslides and it’s surrounded by sunbeds. It’s like a pyramid, only steeper. It’s made of cobbled tiles. In the centre there’s a big green map of the world, but it also looks like slime. My only goal is to get my niece there. We give up trying to climb the structure. It doesn’t look very safe if we were to slip and fall. We’d certainly break a bone. Instead, we walk up the west side which is a slope ridden with grass. We wonder why we didn’t get our dinosaur to stop so that we could jump off at the top.
Adventures of Mr. Paul
Musings and misadventures of a wannabe writer...
Saturday, 7 February 2026
Thursday, 22 January 2026
For Better or Worse? #dreamdiary 214
I’m down at the other end of the supermarket. Someone has opened their own version of a store that’s the same brand as our own. This store is absolutely thriving. Customers are everywhere and there’s one queue to serve them all from. The christmas lights are being put up right in front of me by people on ladders above screens hanging down from the ceiling. The room that they have to operate is double the space of what we have. There’s space to rest items on benches behind shelves that are prepped for promotional items. And they have lots of staff. They’re all young and are willing to fetch stock but no-one is wearing a headset. They’re being led by an ex-colleague of mine. I’ve made a purchase with my staff discount which requires a signature but my receipt is taken off me and is signed by a colleague. I’m about to tell him that’s not how it works but I can’t be bothered as this is my time and I’ve only just discovered this place.
Tuesday, 6 January 2026
Over-Purposed #dreamdiary 213
I’m in a corridor that’s pasted with yellow vertical curvy walls in brick tiles. The floor and ceiling are both painted cream. My colleague has just brought a pallet of beer into the room. I’ve had to move backwards so that he can push a corner of it into a corner then rotate it round to place it at the end of the room. It seems a very strange method for storing things. There are hundreds of these corners all over the stockroom. It’s anew storage system to reduce theft by keeping everything as far apart from each other as possible and delegated to as few people so that trends can be identified. I’m on the fifth floor waiting for my delivery to be pulled in but there’s nowhere to put it away. There’s a lot of hanging around nowadays. I walk around the wall and there’s a window looking at a multi-storey car park opposite. Our building is in a square that surrounds it.
Wednesday, 31 December 2025
Which way Out? #devilsdaughter 26
Her next task was to get out of the building itself. The door was slightly tight when she came in, and even though there were a few cracks in the frame that appeared after she crawled through the entrance, its wall still seemed sturdy. She put a little bit of pressure by shaking her ass against it. The whole building wobbled and dust shook down from the rafters, but it didn’t look like it was going to budge. Was she really going to have to grow upwards and outwards? She might be a bit too big then to interact with the world around her. She could unleash a scream to shatter the windows but she’d have to subdue Luke to a bit more so that he wouldn’t fear her. Pushing the remains of the pews through the glass might be a better option, but she might not be able to push her breasts through. It wouldn’t do any harm to try…
Tuesday, 30 December 2025
Under the Hat
Monday, 29 December 2025
Tardis Flip Wallet Phone Cover
I loved the idea of this phone case. I’ve actually ordered two of these over the years (technically three as I had to quickly cancel one as I ordered the wrong size). It’s a box for a phone, but it also travels through time and space! You can even watch the Tardis on the Tardis! The cover has a magnetic fastener which makes a satisfying click as you close the lid. It’s got the full unblurred information panel, though it’s the windows that let it down as you can tell that it’s a picture. There’s large stitching which holds everything in place and it’s camouflaged into the design. The plastic shell perfectly aligns with all the holes needed for button and camera access and there’s even space opposite to hold a few cards in the black leather. Over time, it did get a bit grazed and battered, but it lasted longer than the phone.
Sunday, 28 December 2025
Three Go Wassailing
It certainly looks that way. We’re standing in the snow with
carol sheets belting out tunes into the cold air. We’re only there to entertain
the little ones. Some have given up on the activities and they’re just there to
pose. They’ve built a tiny little fence to keep us out. Maybe they hope that
taller people will have more sense to stay away or at least attempt to stop
them from stealing the giant bows. The deer could step over it too to charge
the humans if they wanted. There’s more brown stuff on our side, whatever it
is. But their side looks much neater. I wonder what else the forest behind can
knit. It doesn’t look like there’s much left of it. And it’s hard to work out
if the red branches behind me are painted or natural. It might even be a torch
to light up the deer at night.