N: What can I say about Belize?
Z: It’s wet and green. And it doesn’t have roads.
Most of Belize is jungle, which in some areas looks primordial and huge – all tangled canopies and gigantic ferns and tree roots the size of my leg – while in other places it looks more like a dense European [...]
I think it says a lot about Z and me that we invested so much more effort into planning our honeymoon than we did our wedding, and we chose Belize since it promised to cater to both of our passions: exploration (his) and lazing on books with beaches (mine). We went there in January [...]
N:Our plants seem diminished and sad. Perhaps I should pull up some of these weeds that have conquered the flowerbeds.
Z:Yes, it’s a possibility. On the other hand, our plants are so ungrateful, all: This soil is too hard! You don’t water me enough! Angle me more prosperously towards the sun! At least the bloody weeds [...]
December 29, 2008 – 5:06 pm
A love note from Z on the occasion of our fourth year of togetherness:
Still love you, still haven’t slept with whores> Happy Anniversary!
November 17, 2008 – 6:50 pm
When I trace the anatomy, the history of my relationship
…I think of that car park where we first kissed and he floored the gas by reflex and accident
…Of the first night we spent together and the wind that shook the trees and their branches that rattled against the windows of our house and his hands [...]
October 27, 2008 – 3:07 pm
At 4 years, the relationship with Z is the longest one I have had.
Some aspects are drudgery. The minor arguements, the petty irritants. Unmade beds and unswept kitchens and forgotten resolutions to put away socks or pick up the coffee mugs. A conveyor belt of chores and small annoyances that are the price of cohabitation [...]
There are many aspects of Britishness and Englishness and Life On The Isle which I love and embrace with all my heart. But the British sea is not one of them.*
Both Z and I spent a hefty part of our formative years on the Adriatic and Meditteranean coastline, which is why both of us view [...]
When Z and I first began seeing each other, he would ring me up saying he just wanted to hear my voice. A little further into the relationship I would ring him to tell him that I loved him.
It was our little ritual. Handfuls of SMS kisses. Brief conversations without much substance whose purpose was [...]
April 19, 2008 – 11:07 pm
Belgrade is lovely if crazy in its inability to make up its mind whether it is spring or summer or autumn. It is behaving like a mini-England at the moment, but that’s ok by me since I didn’t come here for the weather but for the free babysitters, oh yes.I’ll be here until the end [...]
