After taking the plunge and starting a blog with my husband two and a half years ago, today I thought it was an appropriate time to start my own.

We'd started our joint blog after accepting teaching jobs in an international school in Thailand and chronicled my complete denial of the situation and his growing excitement. After 12 months and one or two hiccups (note: school teachers and blogs often shouldn't mix for a variety reasons I will not say here for fear of causing another complete and utter shit storm), the writing of it sort of, well, stopped. The last time we wrote anything was in August 2010.

A lot has happened since then.

I won't outline them all now as this is kind of why I wanted to start my own blog; so I ponder, muse and chat about what I like, when I like.

Me? I'm 33, married, no kids (but trying), living in Bangkok. I feel I'm too young to be an orphan, a teacher and a homeowner but am all three. I stay in too many Saturday nights and don't drink nearly enough cocktails. I worry too much about my weight, career and fertility (long story) and wish I could say 'Bugger off' to more people than I do. I love nearly any type of film (even the most cheesy) but can't really abide sci-fi or rom-coms. I'm a little bit more snooty about books, though. Reading requires time, effort and concentration. If the book is crap, I feel like I've wasted precious hours of my life and, as a result over the years, have developed a pretty good shit filter.

I will say from the outset, I'll try not to swear too much on here (though a swear word or two can go an awfully long way sometimes), I absolutely will not bad mouth of vilify anyone (unless they're a Tory in which case, I sort of have to) and I will try to keep it mercifully short. And yes, I know I've kind of already broken that rule (at bit) but this is the first one after all!

So there you go. Hope to see you soon.