Everydaystranger

I’ve got a bit of an issue, and it’s with myself.
Hear me out here.
So I have a background in anthropology, which has sweet fuck-all to do with my current job. It does, however, mean I’m a Class A geek and like everything from the etymology of words (my current reading [...]

We went camping.
As you know.
We bought a great big fuck-off tent, which we assembled in the back garden prior to going because we didn’t want to look like newbie assholes.

(That’s Jeff in the background. Jeff is fab. Jeff’s face is also not going to be shown here, which you probably also [...]

I’ve been quiet because of being crazy busy with some things I can talk about, and some I can’t. We have something going on that has taken a fair amount of my mental capacity lately, and I can’t write about it, not right now. It’s fine – I’m ok, Alastair’s ok, all are [...]

First, they shared the same bassinette in the Labour and Delivery Unit (while swaddled in many blankets and wearing preemie baby clothes).

Then they shared the same cot.

Then they went into two separate cots four months after they arrived – this photo is the last day they shared a cot.

Almost two years ago we lowered their [...]

In a little over two months, the Lemonheads will turn three.
Staggering, isn’t it? Three. Three. Years. Old. I can’t believe it. I think it was yesterday that they were born. Or, more likely, they’ve been here for eleven hundred years, since the dawn of time [...]

Sometimes it’s intriguing, this idea that you can lift the lid on the past and breathe in.
It’s easy to do when you’ve been blogging for over 7 years. You can lift the lid off the archives and see who you were at any given point in time, because at no point in [...]

The last of the great “wedding and honeymoon” posts from me, then I’ll leave you alone with all the romantic shit, ok?
We left last Monday, the 5th of July, on a flight to Antigua – we had been booked to go to Croatia, which remains high on the list for us both, but we had [...]

We’re home after three days at the Sandals Resort in Antigua.
More shortly – for now laundry, more aloe vera gel (why yes I am an asshole and got sunburnt), going through photos, and in one hour hugs from two little people that have been missed very much indeed.
-S.

A quick one, as we’ve only just finished the last load of dishes from the party yesterday – 85 people showed up to celebrate our getting hitched, and we partied into the night.
Friday was lovely. After spending the night with my stepmum and stepdaughter in Winchester (the hotel screwed up our reservation [...]

The bride wore silver (chosen in the end after advice to have it shortened), a tiara, and a smile.

Love,
S