Everydaystranger

I’m going to be honest here-I am a tough chick who can handle herself. I’m independent, strong, and good with money (except when it involves Lush, then all bets are off.) There’s little that a man can do that I can’t, except for the following things:
1) Lift a keg of Harvey’s on top [...]

Love has many definitions.
Some say love is what you need in order to give someone a kidney.
Some say that love is that moment where you know you want to be with someone forever.
Hallmark would have you believe that love is a folded A4 piece of card paper with words along the line of “Yo-you de [...]

Things are beginning to get to me.
Slowly, I am losing the ability to control my defences, my marvelous adept defences, the ones that have seen me through life and would have hastened my death. It wasn’t a conscious decision, it wasn’t something I asked for or wanted, it just happened. I realized it [...]

Life has been going on here, as life is wont to do. The garden has been exploding in various colors of foliage, and my God, the roses. There are roses all over the fucking place, all exploding in colors that should have an FDA regulation on them.
We have hot pink ones.

Not so pink [...]

I had to go to Waitrose to buy dinner goods. I was stressed, tired, hot (the English summer has now arrived full on, and God knows it better stay that way for my barbecue next weekend) and, in true Helen tradition, had neglected to think about my attire and thus went to the shop [...]

Yesterday both Angus and I were taken to Ascot Races, to enjoy box seats and serious horse-racing. It was Ladies Day, and the totty was a-planty. Ascot had been re-built so the new stands were ready.

It was a blinding time full of pink champagne, ridiculous hats, and the sweet smell of horses. [...]

I talked to a manager about a job recently. The position was a director role, which is the next step up for me. It sounded interesting on the web screen, but after speaking with the manager it became clear that the position was not something for me. The strange part is, once [...]

The Bad News-I did not get the job.
The Good News-HR phoned me and said they were really pleased with my interview. The reason I didn’t get the position was I have experience based on gerbils, and the position wanted gerbils with a bit of parakeet on the side. But they were impressed with [...]

A few weeks ago my therapist sat across from me and asked about my homework (it’s homework. And I get to pay

I’ve thought a lot about what to say and write about Greece. A trip to Santorini and Crete, a last minute affair, a suggestion made by my boy as we travelled on a train home, me absent of emotion and him constant with support. It was a compromise to a rough time, a [...]

A short diversion from the Greek recap, if you don’t mind.
One year ago I had a very bad day (you won’t find it in my archives as I have deleted it). In fact I had a no-good, rotten very bad day, the kind of which you realize that getting out of bed was a [...]

We’re home.
We’re tired, happy, our skin is lightly browned and above all, we are incredibly relaxed. Isn’t that strange? Relaxed…finally.
I had forgotten how amazing that feels.
Our home PCs are buggered so more about the trip and the pictures shortly. For now, I give you Oia and the Aegean Sea.

I didn’t want to [...]

Work has become a living blinding hell.
I have over 2,000 emails.
I don’t even know how many voice mails.
Every day is a daily struggle to get through the politics and me? I’m not clever enough to do them. I’m just not. I don’t even wish I was-it simply isn’t me, never has been, [...]

We are getting the invite ready for our yearly Fourth of July party/housewarming. Yes, we moved over two months ago but we have been too fucking lazy and/or stressed to do anything about it, so a conjoined party? Good for all involved.
Fourth of July parties have occurred in my household for my entire [...]

When I was a kid I used to practice my Oscar acceptance speeches. I don’t remember what I’d say but I know that they were long. I was a pretty strange kid in that my Oscar speeches were delivered to the playground and I absolutely didn’t care who listened. It wasn’t that [...]

30 June 2006
BUM BUM!
There’s this Disney cartoon I remember from childhood-it’s a park ranger in charge of all these bears. The bears need a bit of convincing to play tidy up the nursery, so he sings this song-”First you pick it up, put it in the bag BUM BUM! That’s the way we play the [...]

Ten things about me that you probably didn’t know, but will absolutely not change your life anyway:
1) I’m a phone-a-phile. Our mobile phones run our lives, because that’s the business we’re in (makes me wonder what I’d be like if I ran a butcher’s shop. Or a whorehouse. In some circumstance, I [...]