where I try and work out what to say about me

I grew up in a teeny tiny village by the sea, after a brief love affair with London I went to meet my future husband's parents in Turkey. That was nearly a decade ago. I am still here. Now I live in a teeny tiny village by the sea, I have two kids. I blog about my life, or at least I will - obviously I am writing this just as I'm starting out, so who knows, maybe I'll blog about aliens or something. Or religion, love religion - did I mention my dad's a priest and my husband's a Muslim? Woah sidetracked there for a moment. This bits supposed to be irritatingly generic... I have ten fingers and ten toes and my favourite colour is yellow. Arse I hate how the word yellow sounds and looks when it is written, I just hear the word 'yoke' as in egg and that is such and unpleasant connotation for a favourite colour bleugh. New plan, RED! my favourite colour
is red!


I spell in British, when I spell at all (didn't yoke used to be spelt yolk?) I haven't decided yet if I am anonymous or anything else. I guess I'll see how much I swear and how much I need to bitch about my husband and then make that decision. Oh I should totally tell you about how I came up with the name and what it means to me and blah blah blah, well... after days of thinking I maybe had something to say and could start a blog, and turning over possible title in my mind I went to blogger to set one up and discovered a sad truth. Every name you type in has already been taken. You start just throwing together random words - "lemon freckles" - gone baby, "marshmallow pickle" - gone gone gone. Then somehow despite all the odds, you come up with something that isn't too far off the mark. Because even though I live abroad and have added weirdness like multicultural kids, and a not-at-all western husband, my life is very ordinary, but still quite interesting.

7 comments:

  1. Good luck with your blog. I started at the beginning of last year and blogging has now become part of my life.
    Hope you enjoy the experience too.

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  2. Just came across your blog by accident and I find that you've added me to your blogroll. Thank you! I've added you back. It's the polite thing to do and I like what I read!

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    1. Awesome! I applaud your sense of propriety!

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  3. I like it, Mary! And I love the background. Keep it up! Miss you!

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    1. Miss you too sweetie, come visit us sometime.

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  4. American spelling of the English language = pet hate, especially when using spell check - confuses me and confudles my brain to the point aggggghhhhh.

    Looking forward to reading more of you :-)

    PS: Confudles is a real world. In my world anyway.

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    1. I am terrible at spelling no matter what the situation. I also have the added complication that as a half-American I frequently can't remember which words belong to which country.
      Loving your Urfa series- really fascinating.

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