Everydaystranger

The lights are fluorescent and lend an unkind pall over everyone in the room. I am on an uncomfortable folding chair that makes a noise whenever I move, so I endeavour not to. On the other side of the room is a fold-out table, complete with a large silver urn bottomed with a [...]

My health, it isn’t brilliant.
Newsflash, you might moan, rolling your eyes at the screen. You’ve been well short of healthy for a long time missy.
The truth is some elements are getting better – last week I shook hands and said goodbye to my fabulous German therapist. I wanted to hug her but hugging [...]

Summer has finally arrived to the UK. Ok, technically it’s Spring still, but you get my drift. We had a weekend of glorious, incredible weather that topped out at 30 degrees. It was nice while it lasted – it’s down to 12 degrees by Wednesday with a weeked of chilly rain [...]

My shoes were 11 years old.
I remember buying them in an outlet mall somewhere in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. Black strappy heels from Nine West, a little too tight at a US size 9 (my feet are actually a 9.5-10 but you’d be surprised what you’ll do for a cute pair of shoes). [...]

Yesterday was a good day. The sun finally came out. The flowers finally got moved out of the greenhouse. The twins had a fun time. Nick in particular was happy.
This is a big thing, this one.
Nick being happy.
We’ve had problems recently. We have had to install new ways [...]

OK, because of logistics, you probably aren’t invited to the wedding. I’d love to have you, really, only no one in our real lives knows about the blog and it’s best we keep it that way.
This was the invitation that we’ve been sending out (and still aren’t finished because organization is not [...]

This weekend I accomplished the following:
1) Mowed the lawn*
2) Got drunk (too much stress) and shagged my boyfriend*
3) Made breakfast. OK, actually, I made it on Saturday (bacon sarnies for them, an egg bagel for me. He made it on Sunday – poached eggs with anchovies. Sounds gross, in reality a little [...]

Assumptions.
We all have them. We all make them. There’s some ridiculous saying about how an assumption makes an ass out of you and me, but I don’t really get it – I twig that it’s some kind of cut from the spelling of the word, I just think the saying tries too hard.
I [...]

Sometimes I struggle.
I don’t really understand how I wound up where I am. I can trace certain events – two weeks before I graduated from university I went to a job fair. Mindful that I had over $25k in student loans ticking to be paid back and no job prospect lined up, I [...]

1) Try to strip the existing front door in mad, vain hope that it can be salvaged. Give up when you realize it’s not salvageable. Accept with degree of weariness that you now look like a very religious household indeed.

Do nothing with mildly creepy and ugly front door for a while.
Then, get a [...]

If you’ve been following the news then you’ll know that there’s an election going on over here. No really. There is. I know that we don’t often make headline news in the big wide world but the debates – the first time in British history that the prime minister candidates have been [...]