This is me...

This is new to me.  I love words and have always loved to write.   I am a classic lurker and have read the blogs of others for years.  Now I have decided that after a health scare my beloved endured a few months ago I need an outlet.

I make no promises to have the most exciting blog, but it will be real... I don't have many children, I have a single child, she is the love of my life and my double, but more of that later.  I am married to a wonderfully patient man who tries my patience endlessly, but whom I love with every fibre of my body.

I don't have an exotic career, I am a training material development manager.  Fancy wording for a proof reader / problem solver for a team of gifted technical writers.  Writers are fab people, if a little highly strung, so sometimes need nurturing and mothering and someone to run interference for them so that they can get on and do what they do best.

I don't live in an exciting place unless you count the suburbs of Johannesburg, racey.  Africa is cool, and hot and violent and full of human kindness.  I am a child of Africa and always will be.  I am about to lose my sister to England, she will be immigrating at the end of next month, and we are sad and happy and nervous for her, all at the same time.  I don't think I could think of doing that, my husband, certainly not, but we are all different.

I hope to share my daily thoughts, and work thinks out, so this will be a journey of sorts.

I now need to dash, as I still need to swing past stables (did I mention we own a horsemad 10 year old and a suitably mad horse?) make dinner, check homework and have some conversation with my beloved. 

See you here soon.