Raiding the High Street

Purchases garnered today through a last-minute raid on the remaining summer sales:1. Pair of mint green pumps with kitten heels. YT never wears green, much less mint green, but the leather was simply too exquisite to pass up. Plus they were 50% off.2. 1 Gerald Darel...

Cockatiel love

Polly the cockatiel is driving me insane. She refuses to leave me alone. At this very moment she is running back and forth outside the door to the room I am in [little feet-pitter patter], back-and-forth, back-and-forth, and occasionally emitting the sharpest, most...

A tragedy

Dreadful news yesterday: a horrific car accident in east Iceland, a private vehicle in collision with a transport truck. Two passengers dead at the scene, the driver sustained life-threatening injuries. Only today did we discover that the driver is one of EPI’s...

God’s little joke…

What-oh-what would possess Him to make it so that two women living in the same household always get their periods at the same time?Hmm? Are we s’posed to be laughing?THE WEATHERCrappy. Rainy. Oh and guess what? Current temps are 12°C. Betcha didn’t see...

Romanian orphans and things flying

EPI’s eldest daughter went off to Romania a few days ago. She’s there for a month to work in an orphanage in a region about an hour out of Bucharest. She’s a medical student, going into her fourth year in September, and last summer she was in Slovakia to work in a...

Gay Parade

It was Gay Pride day in Reykjavík yesterday. EPI and YT went and checked out their oh-so-fantabulous parade, along with 39,998 others. I managed to snap a handful of photos before my camera battery conked out on me.Iceland allows gays and lesbians to marry in a civil...