I have no idea how this blogging malarkey works, or why people seem to love it so much, but hey, I'm 40 now and that's when life supposedly begins. That, along with being on the cusp of producing offspring, means that I should probably power up for the 21st century - at least I know what a blog is - sort of - so I'm going to give it a go.
It's funny how everyone seems to have a bogey age; for my mother, sixty is a ghastly number(though of course, that's still a long way off for her), for her husband, fifty filled him with horror and anguish and for a couple of friends, thirty was unthinkable. I dreaded turning forty; in my mind, it stood for everything that I was afraid of - conformity, settling down to a life that would involve none of the pleasures of my youth, wrinkles and sagging flesh, having medical procedures and generally preparing myself for a downhill slump to the grave. However, I can safely say that this has been steadily shaping up to being one of the most energising and exciting years of my life. I'm 35 weeks pregnant, have written three-quarters of the first draft of my first novel (and germinating plans for a second), have been shortlisted for a short story writing prize (oh please oh please let me get published!) and am finally officially engaged to my completely marvellous partner-in-crime, Giles.
My fortieth birthday marked quite a revolution; this has already been a year of big changes, and they're about to get bigger. In just four and a half weeks, I'm due to meet my first child, and two weeks after that, Giles and I will be married. A week after that, we hope to return to our friends in Istanbul, before we have to pack up all our worldly goods and prepare for the next big change - a move to Penang, Malaysia this summer.
Of course, all of this change is marvellous, and will bring all kinds of new challenges, rewards and disappointments, but it's also utterly insane. As my mother has always said, I don't do things by halves - and neither does my other half, so what other option is there but to take on the whole world at once?
And so, my friends, the reason for my attempts at moving with technology - or at least, straggling on its coattails and hoping I'm not left too far behind - to try to keep you up to date with some of the impending tornado of activity that is about to lift me clean out of life as I know it and to dump me somewhere beautiful, fearful and incredible that sure ain't Kansas. I hope that some it will be enough to interest and entertain you.
Lots of love xxx
It's funny how everyone seems to have a bogey age; for my mother, sixty is a ghastly number(though of course, that's still a long way off for her), for her husband, fifty filled him with horror and anguish and for a couple of friends, thirty was unthinkable. I dreaded turning forty; in my mind, it stood for everything that I was afraid of - conformity, settling down to a life that would involve none of the pleasures of my youth, wrinkles and sagging flesh, having medical procedures and generally preparing myself for a downhill slump to the grave. However, I can safely say that this has been steadily shaping up to being one of the most energising and exciting years of my life. I'm 35 weeks pregnant, have written three-quarters of the first draft of my first novel (and germinating plans for a second), have been shortlisted for a short story writing prize (oh please oh please let me get published!) and am finally officially engaged to my completely marvellous partner-in-crime, Giles.
My fortieth birthday marked quite a revolution; this has already been a year of big changes, and they're about to get bigger. In just four and a half weeks, I'm due to meet my first child, and two weeks after that, Giles and I will be married. A week after that, we hope to return to our friends in Istanbul, before we have to pack up all our worldly goods and prepare for the next big change - a move to Penang, Malaysia this summer.
Of course, all of this change is marvellous, and will bring all kinds of new challenges, rewards and disappointments, but it's also utterly insane. As my mother has always said, I don't do things by halves - and neither does my other half, so what other option is there but to take on the whole world at once?
And so, my friends, the reason for my attempts at moving with technology - or at least, straggling on its coattails and hoping I'm not left too far behind - to try to keep you up to date with some of the impending tornado of activity that is about to lift me clean out of life as I know it and to dump me somewhere beautiful, fearful and incredible that sure ain't Kansas. I hope that some it will be enough to interest and entertain you.
Lots of love xxx
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