10 years ago : I was living in Liverpool, struggling with my MSc and with my flatmates habit of having raucous parties weekly and loudly singing melancholic Greek songs (daily). I was deeply deeply depressed walking a precipice so steep that it's only by the grace of God that I managed to keep putting one foot in front of the other. And while it ( Read more... )

In the normal course of things, Helena is about as affectionate as a sheepdog. She's happy to run circles around us, with excited noises and the occasional friendly headbutt but generally views kissing and hugging as an invasion of personal space ( Read more... )

Matei has enjoyed Christmas so much that he keeps trying to instigate repeats. 'Is Santa coming today?' he inquires almost daily, and can only with the greatest difficulty be persuaded not to a)keep taking all the ornaments off the tree in order to put them back again and b)hanging them all on the same branch. We succeeded in keeping present-fest ( Read more... )

Living With Sagittarius - Part IIThe other day Z and I had a brief conversation about possibly officially living together from next year and what that would be like ( Read more... )