We are here, we are well.
I feel very displaced and can’t imagine that I lived here for so long. It seems strange to be back, kind of welcoming, yet kind of disconcerting.
I am very aware that I do not live here anymore, that it is no longer my home, and instead […]

… sometimes I go out after dark.  Not often, usually I am quite reliably home by seven o’clock, the Monster’s bedtime.  But, just sometimes, I go out. 
Tonight O. and I went to an Ale Festival and hung out with some fellow chess players.  Chess players.  This might sound like a really dull lot, but you would […]

-  The accents and the differing terminology.  I can’t help but like it.  I can’t hear my husbands accent anymore,  it’s just not there,  but when I meet new people, I notice it and it still makes me smile. 
-  The films and tv (not all obviously,  because quite a lot of it is really REALLY terrible).  I […]

… their girls will play.  The title (or something close to) to a lesbian porn I saw once.  Charming.
My husband has gone away for a few days, to Liverpool to watch the Everton/Villareal match.  It’s a big game and he’s excited, but he’s acting a bit put off about having to travel and stay […]

O. had his long “weekend” Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday then back to work tonight.  It’s been ages since he hasn’t taken on some extra shifts and had a few days off, in a row.  We finally had some time to regroup a little.  We had picnics, bike rides, long drives, big meals and hours […]

Moving?  Think about the fact that you will get to a place and not know where anything is.  You find a way to get where you are going,  and that’s the way you go.  Then,  there is a road closure,  which there are all the time, and all the sudden,  you have NO idea how […]