Three years — fifteen years — whose counting?

Yesterday was our wedding anniversary. We have officially been together for three years. Leather, is what that amounts to, which is great for a pair of vegetarians.
The funny thing is that we met in 1993. On the 4 July. And kissed for the first time that same evening. It was us. From then on, it [...]

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Lost&Found

So. This week I lost and found one pair of tweezers twice. Then, in the search for the missing hoover parts for our old hoover (recently given away to very nice girl from Latvia), the previous set of tweezers was discovered  inside Moby Dick. No, we didn’t look inside for the hoover bits, but behind [...]

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Meeting Amy

Our reputation as dog-sitters is spreading. Well, that’s not strictly speaking true. A while ago, Stuart (a friend of a friend, but rising in the world) hinted to Kevin that he occasionally needed someone to look after his Golden Retriever. Afterwards, Kevin came home, gave me Stuart’s e-mail address and said to send him [...]

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Is something missing from sex-ed in France?

Apparently, wire-wool and tampons are the same thing there.
Kevin bought these today. And no, I had not asked him to get me tampons, even though my period is due. He bought them because he needed wire wool, so I’m hoping he got it right and the things are not actually meant for women to use [...]

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Where did you last see them?

Well, if I knew that I wouldn’t still be looking all over the place for them, would I? That’s the whole annoying thing about being me. I had those tweezers RIGHT THERE, and when I put them down I actually thought, if I put them there I’ll be able to find them because that spot, [...]

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A little more Mischa

It has been hinted that Mischa and Knickers may be homeless as of August this year. Alex and Livia have to make a decision about renting out the house and for some reason it’s hard to find tenants if one includes lunatic Border Collie and large Alsation-mix, cat and fish tank in the let. I [...]

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The ultimate relationship test

A visit to IKEA is a sure-fire-way for us to end up SHOUTING AT EACH OTHER, but I have some almost unbelievable news. We didn’t. And in case you didn’t quite catch that: WE WENT TO IKEA YESTERDAY AND WE DIDN’T SAY ANYTHING NASTY TO EACH OTHER. NOT EVEN ONCE! Now, that is more than [...]

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Yet another reason not to return home

The manufacturing of components for  the ‘London cab’ has been outsourced to China. This is actually old news, but it was repeated on Radio 4 this morning. I loved those cabs. HUGE! And laid out to make you feel elegant getting in and out — seriously, I’m not kidding here. It’s the only cab I [...]

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Why we got Cleo

I’m not sure I should say ‘we’ at all here; Kevin is completely not to blame for this one. Except that he said something about an MG BGT being more practical than another model as we could get a dog in the back. Well, we’ve tried that and, guess what, it sort of limits us [...]

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He loves me, he loves me not, he loves me

Various of Kevin’s friends have described him to me over the years, as if I didn’t already know him from trying to share a duvet with him and ended up getting two singles. He claims this to be a ’sensible Scandinavian arrangement’ — whatever that is supposed to mean.
Anyway; the main description has always been [...]

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