Everydaystranger

When we were kids Sundays were for waffles. Hot, buttered, syrupy waffles. It made a house a home, right down to the last uneaten waffle that got fed to the dog. Last weekend, I realized I needed a waffle iron of my own, the old-fashioned kind. It was hard to find [...]

I know I am hideously boring lately (as indicated by comments and my complete inability to post everyday), but I’m rather like a BBC news alert these days-I’m off most of the time, with only the occasional flash showing I am indeed alive.
I could tell you that work is shit, that I am a bit [...]

From time to time I get emails from people asking how to move to England, and what you have to do to get here. I suppose I should say something pithy, like ‘Buy a plane ticket’

Our possessions arrived in a deluge-it has been raining here for a week, and is to rain a week more. With a swoosh Kungsholm Movers came down our lane, a bright yellow and blue Swedish moving truck filled with moved Swedish things. When at last the doors opened, I felt they were as [...]

Disappointment is the most bitter pill to swallow. It winds you around its little finger and reminds you of just how small you really are. It’s even harder to deal with when you somehow almost convince yourself that you can achieve something, there’s something in your sights that could be yours, it’s so [...]

It has not been good.
I am taking a few days to be away from the web, and to just recover.
-H.

There’s a forest near our house. We both love to walk Gorby through the forest, because it’s a place of peace, a place of calm. We’ve started taking one of his toys with us, and we play fetch.
And lately, the whole forest floor has become a carpet of exploding bluebells and new growing [...]

Tuesday I had an early morning appointment in London. This entailed getting my ass out of bed at an uncomfortable time and getting myself to the train station at an even more uncomfortable time. This is where the problem was.
Where we lived before the most convenient station was about a ten minute drive [...]

Tuesday I had an early morning appointment in London. This entailed getting my ass out of bed at an uncomfortable time and getting myself to the train station at an even more uncomfortable time. This is where the problem was.
Where we lived before the most convenient station was about a ten minute drive [...]

So last week, all over every available media surface and screaming in every possible font, were words screaming more or less the same effect:
Uproar over IVF woman expecting a baby at 63
That’s right. England-and the world-went nuts decrying the pure selfish behavior of said woman, how she was absolutely mad. IVF clinics [...]

Sunday was International Laughing Day.
Fucking whatever.
-H.

To be a puppy-
A moment in time where a dentabone-the ultimate instant gratification-is pure bliss.

Where your only big choices are which toy to play with, which Nylabone to chew.

And where each moment can be a moment of fun, safe and secure in the loving nest of your home and your family.

Of course, if you knew [...]

In general, I am a pretty reticent person. Oh sure, you may think that just because I swear a lot and like to shag my boyfriend and run a large engineering team with all the delicacy of Pavarotti trying to find his dick for a clown punching session that I’m a tough chick who [...]

Way back in university I took a Feminist Culture class, or what I now think of as my Angry Crunchy-Granola Lesbian class (this is not a slur-I LOVE lesbians. I think lesbians are GREAT.) When I took this class I had to write a dissertation on the differences between men and women, and [...]

We’ve been re-doing the bathrooms, as the one toilet room downstairs was desperately boring and the family bathroom upstairs didn’t have a shower. It also had a toilet that leaked foul nasty shit all over the floor when you flushed it and deep blue plush carpets that made me want to fall down on [...]

28 May 2006
I’m Checking Out
My mother rings on Saturday night, while we were at New Forest. I don’t answer because my phone is on silent, but I wouldn’t have answered anyway. We stopped being close some years ago, it’s better this way. If the scent of disfunction is too strong for you at this, I [...]

I have never been a positive person. I learned early on in life that the best thing in the world is to prepare yourself for the worst, for the fall, for the humiliation and for the loss, before they all expose you and get the best of you. If the worst feeling in [...]