Life has been colourful and interesting for the most part, filled with people I have loved and liked and some I have happily left behind; with travel and culture, art and literature, good food and great beer and even now that it’s calm and quiet and settling down with a hot toddie and a warm blanket, things can get a little dramatic and occasionally chaotic… and have been known to get freaky.! I found Bear on Facebook in July of 2010 and since have sworn to stay away from social media… that kind of weirdness is more than I can handle… 😉
I moved in with him in November 2010 and have successfully so far, managed not to beat him to death with his own laptop… something I ought to be commended for. Currently we reside in a three-bed terrace in a little street on the edge of a city. Everything is uphill from here, the school, chip shop, pizza shop and local supermarket, so I stay where I am and expect Bear to pander to my every whim.
We have a Border Collie mix/Duck Tolling Retriever cross dog named DRAX the Destroyer and every other weekend the forces of nature that are Bear’s two youngest, both teenagers, arrive, vegetate just like their father, eat us out of house and home and disappear again. Both are highly intelligent, what their previous school’s called gifted and both like nothing more than stretching out on the sofa with Netflix and YouTube for the full 51 hours they spend with us of a weekend. Occasionally I might hear something from one of my own children, but those calls are few and far between now that they have discovered adulting is not quite as easy as they had assumed when they were free to do as they pleased.
These days, life is an endless round of chores and cooking, work shifts and long walks, with evenings spent watching some form of sci-fi. Not that I’m complaining, it could be much more exciting, I could dress up and wear knickers and go outside in the fresh air and be around people… but I just don’t have the energy or inclination for all that drama… 🙂
Dear Diary... 