Life has been pretty much uneventful ( Read more... )

Back home again - knackered. The floor looks amazing; Dad managed to strip and polish the entire thing while I was away, minus my bedroom (which is full of crates of stuff from the rest of the house).

I still find it hard to believe that the previous owners would see a house with gorgeous floorboards like this and voluntarily lay carpet that ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here listening to the Savage Love podcast - which is awesome, and everybody should be listening to it! - and there are so many calls from people with messed-up families, especially people whose families can't accept their preferences or identities. Or (often in the case of young adults) people whose families can't accept the fact that ( Read more... )