Everydaystranger

The house is hot and the briefest flutter of wind sneaks in through all of the open windows, making its way illicitly in the house when it’s not supposed to. My eyes snap open at the feel of the wind and I rub my eyes, rubbing out the allergies. I sit up and [...]

I keep opening this tab to write something and then walking away from it. I meant to write something earlier but got caught up in time (which I always get snagged in, you know). We have a to-do list a mile long. This is perhaps what happens when you decide to host [...]

I’ve been watching True Blood, the first series. I’m a bit behind the curve in terms of both time and cool factor so have only just gotten into the series. I enjoy it although am tiring of this whole shrieking female needs constant saving by true love-y lusty man who cannot be in [...]

I’m feeling introspective right now. It’s not due to being down or sad or anything negative, just feeling a bit inward. Writing that post about my dad has lengthened the tunnel as well. He and I have had a few heart to hearts about the past and about our regrets, what we [...]

There are many things that I put out here and write about. There are thoughts, feelings, observations, hurts and successes. I talk more here than I do to most of my friends, which means either I am hideously repressed or – more likely – you are my friends in some kind of way. [...]

When I lived in Dallas I had a neighbor who had a Dalmation. Dalmations, due to so much inbreeding, now are prone to deafness. My neighbor’s dog was such a specimen, and he used to invariably get out and go running and she’d stand outside, shouting for him. When she saw me [...]

I downloaded a few new CDs last night – Glee’s latest, Sarah McLachlan’s new one which I’ve been waiting for some time to get my hands on, although strangely now that I have it, I’ve been afraid to listen to it. It’s there, as though it implies something, this listening to it. My [...]

This past weekend my allergies exploded. As in really exploded, to the point where my eyes started swelling shut and then last night they commenced bleeding. I wanted to make parallels to certain Biblical references but my sense of humor has pretty much failed, as evidenced by me crying and holding frozen washcloths [...]

I sometimes think that there’s a code that people with kids learn, something akin to a secret handshake or just the telltale evidence of a smudge of finger paint on the hems of our jackets. In our house it’s the joke of CBeebies theme songs – you imagine walking past a fellow parent on [...]

Yesterday afternoon Alastair’s brother and sister-in-law were burgled. We found this out when we logged into Facebook and saw photos of their house, and how it had basically been ransacked. They took all the goodies, including laptops, jewelry, Playstation, Wii, the lot.
I’ve had my car broken into a few times (and [...]

We love this house. I love this house. This house is 100 years old and something always needs working on. When we bought it, we got it for a shockingly (relatively, this being England and in particular, this being Southern England) low price as so much work needed to be done on [...]

Since I’ve been crazy busy, I thought I would cheat upload some of the search items that people have been using to get to my site, most of which make me laugh:
i’m uncomfortable with a pelvic ultrasound Honey, no one likes them. Lie back and think of England. If that doesn’t work, [...]

No really. I am a dork. I’ve always been so keen on reading that I remember the summer I was 12 there was a reading competition at the local library (which I also volunteered at because I love to alphabetize). In one month you had to read as many pages as possible. [...]