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I have a terrible weakness for cute boys playing the piano -



Now that's been dealt with, what am I supposed to write here? I've toyed with the idea of writing a blog for a while now. But what do I have to write about, really? Who am I and what gives me the authority?

I'm a Stay at Home Mom to one gorgeous little man who is a year old at the end of this month. My husband and I live in Heidelberg, Germany. I'm British and he's American. How on earth did that happen? Well sometimes I'm not sure myself.

I wasn't always this way. I was born in the south of England, grew up in rural East Anglia (ok, so pretty much all of East Anglia is rural). I moved to the glorious city of Nottingham (of Robin Hood fame, for you Americans) where I worked hard, played hard and studied English Literature.

Sometime in early 2006 I met a charming young man on a website that we both frequented. We stayed up late to talk to one another most nights, he was deployed to Kosovo at that moment so our time difference was only an hour. Somehow he managed to convince me to let him visit while he was on leave. We stayed in London, visited Paris and then retreated to my home in Nottingham. Then somehow he convinced me to marry him.

Fast forward a few years and here we are. I moved to the States, we got married in Chicago and lived at Fort Hood, TX for a year and a half before moving out here to Germany. With a cute little extra thrown into the mix -

Who was born at the end of September 2007.

Contrary to popular belief, it isn't just ugly, boring people who meet on the internet. We're both pretty hot and definitely awesome to be honest.

So that's it I guess. This blog is going to be a nice little outlet for rants on various subjects, including but in no way limited to - book reviews, film reviews, political rants, general life rants and photography.

And also shoes.

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Introduction

So yes, this is the new blog!

*cue fanfare and applause .wav file*

After musing it over for a short time I decided to go ahead and make the site and start writing away because there are so many great creative ventures that get shot down when you can't ever get yourself past the 'name' phase of the game.

So clash and contradiction it is.

There's plenty of that in my life, and I’m sure my wife agrees – don’t worry you’ll meet her soon – so for now this will be the name.

The purpose of this blog is to give my wife and I an open forum to rant about things. Things that matter to us and that SHOULD matter to you. After all, if you don’t have opinions about random foreign films and obscure books overshadowed by more acclaimed works then you’re just not considered cool.

Of course if you didn’t know that they were conducting an experiment today that could quite possibly end the world then that is all the more reason for you to read on!

Because here we plan to talk about all that good stuff, books, films, TV shows, video games, politics, military life (oh yeah I’m in the Army btw, shhh), raising a kid, being newlyweds, photography, art, current events and whatever else we can get our pointy yet cynical teeth into.

I hope that you enjoy reading, and for those of you who find this post a few years from now when we’re owning half of the blog-o-sphere and scroll back to see our first blog ever…kudos. Major fucking props to you my inquisitive internet friend.

~ R

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