January 2017 - Page 2 of 2 - Walk with Suzie

This Friday was 6^th January, and so the Christmas decorations came down (OK, so the tree hasn’t actually left the house yet, but the decorations have been removed…). For me, that always brings a mixed sense of both sadness that Christmas is over, and slight relief that the house is now back to normal. The house feels bigger for a short while, although only really because it is emptier. When the physical signs of Christmas are gone (other than the number on the scales…), it feels like it is time to “move on”, return to the routine and accept that life has to return to normal. That’s not a bad thing, I don’t think, but it’s also important to remember Christmas and to keep hold of some of our Christmas habits. Continue reading “When Christmas comes down”

4 and a half years ago I got to marry my best friend. We met aged 7, spent most of our school years apart, and then re-met just before we went to separate universities. We married 2 weeks after he graduated, and moved to Surrey to start our life of wedded bliss. And it is blissful. I can’t begin to express how lucky I am to have married him. He’s loyal, loving, kind, interesting, tall (very important when you’re my height!), fun to be around, etc. etc. But there is something I have to tell you about my husband: he’s an engineer, a software developer, a technical genius.

If any of my readers are married to someone like this, I think what you’re about to read will be very familiar. Over the last few years, I have begun to learn how to live with a man of this particular breed. I have started to understand that some things come as standard with this particular package, and can’t really be changed. But why would you want to? Continue reading “How to live with a software developer”