Well I have for a long time now contemplated whether or not I wanted to start a blog, in all honestly who would really want to read my rambling rants. But then WordPress is free and I thought why not, I can fit it in when The One Show and Cuntryfile are on!
So I start to register and then I have to write a little bit of a biography, detailing who I am. Then the realisation dawns, I haven’t actually got a clue who I am or where I am from.
I was born in leafy Surrey to a father from Manchester with Irish Catholic routes, and a mother from Liverpool with Church of Scotland routes and I have now relocated to the West Midlands for the last couple of decades, during which I spent a good four of those years travelling mainly in the United States. I then start to acknowledge that I have never really felt I belonged to any one place, creed or culture.
I was the child of older parents who were the children of older parents, I have long since been the only member of my family left alive in this country and as such have sometimes felt a great detachment to any feelings of sentimentality in relation to a certain area. My feelings of attachment are more directed at memories rather than places.
So, who knew that starting a blog could be so internally thought provoking. I actually think being so rootless has made me more grounded, and if anything more open and accepting of change.
So, that is who I am a little bit of everything and a whole lot of nothing. Welcome to my blog which I promise will cover in greater detail my slow, tortuous descent into insanity but commenting on life, media, and all things fabulous before I actually hit the bottom of the pit. x
What a superb start. loquent , witty and bittersweet without being self indulgent….I never knew you had no family here, such a sad thing to know,most of my family is dead also and my parents are in Spain I too feel detached from everywhere and everyone……who are you ?……..my friend Ange xxxx
Oh Mark thank-you so much. That is so sweet, that is why we get on so well, my friend Mark xxxxxx
bless you….and blog away…..im gonna be a big fan hehehe xxx
Welcome to word press
I’m glad you’ve started a blog. I have subscribed.
Wow thank-you so much Helen, I’m honoured xxx
Great read, very deep, not the Angela comments I’m used to reading. Looking forward to future blogs :o)
Thanks Sue, I do have occasional reflective moments, occasional xx
Angela, I never miss a thing you write on FB, and will not be missing any of your future blogs. Some people have a rare and wonderful gift of looking at life a little differently. You got it! And you are entertaining, have great humor, or as you would say humour. So, I’m your fan from across the pond. The best, my friend!
Thank-you so much my friend, those words mean so much to me. It is Humour not humor ;-0 xxx love you xxx
Looking forward to reading your future blogs Ange. You do make me smile! x
Thank you Ange, as long as I can do that it will be worth it xx
cracking- I shall follow with interest !
Thank-you so appreciated xxxx
Congratulations on your new blog Angela! I am glad you took the plunge to write looking to hearing more from you!
Great first blog! Love it! Love you!!!
Well done Ange , look forward to reading 🙂 xxxx