Matei has declared that he cannot pick up his toys because he is: "pregnant and very tired ( Read more... )

Well. It turns out that the biggest ennemy of internet use is not employment, or parenthood, or the demands of marital emotional engagement and intimacy, but migraine headaches now starring in Your Howling Unresponsive To Panadol Agony on 5 days of the last 7. I have dozens half-written posts and comments, abandoned mid-sentence when the computer's ( Read more... )

For years, I have been calling Z my heart. Recently, in a bid to spice things up he has taken to calling me my kidney and on special occasions sweetpancreasI have always been playful and mischievous (my regular pasttime is still to make prank phonecalls to Z at work, at least once a week) and I am childlike in many ways (I love shiny things, I clap ( Read more... )

For someone who loves reading and stockpiles books and shoes in the house in quantities that make my husband cry, I was a pretty late starter at the whole reading-independently business (as I explained to my mother whenever she asked, "but why should I learn to read when you read to me so well?"). I did love books though, and would be happily ( Read more... )

Z: How was your seminar today ( Read more... )

Yesterday some weird insane guy was hanging around in front of my office and heckling me, and I was talking about it with Z later, saying about feeling unsafe and scared and he’s suggested I carry my didgeridoo around for protection ( Read more... )

What with the Tsunami, I've been thinking about the sea again and my own ( Read more... )

One of my favourite memories I'm about three years old there.


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Most days the surface of my mind is placid and still, turqoise, cobalt and indigo blue. A sea mind ( Read more... )

Trust a Cancerian to love their food


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