About

My name is Kay and I live in Hull – but please don’t hold that against me.

This is my fourth blog since 2002, which may lead you to believe that I have a little problem with commitment. I am going to state for the record that this is NOT true, which is why I change careers, country of residence and hair colour every couple of years. Originally I started blogging to keep in touch with friends while I was living in Japan, the major flaw being that I forgot to mention to them that I was doing it. My enthusiasm waned. Plus at that time I was way too busy and important to tell everybody all about the exciting life I was leading. Now I am trying to grow up and have plenty of time to inflict the tediousness of my life on you. Hoorah!

For as long as Typepad keep it up my last blog can be found at http://www.karoons.typepad.com/
(I would link to it properly but I’ve not figured out how to do that on here yet and I’m not rich enough to have a personal techno monkey)

What do you need to know… probably not much.

I just hit 30 (with only a minor freak out about the passage of time and how we are all doomed to die alone).

I’m a primary school teacher which means my life veers wildly from working a 60 hour week to doing nothing for 6 weeks on the trot. I spend most of my days trying to decipher the minds of 5 year olds which as far as jobs go, is  pretty fantastic.

I like shoes – probably a little too much.

I love dancing in my kitchen, stripy blue mittens and old French films.

I break something at least once a week.

I don’t believe in god. I do believe in fate.

My favourite ice-cream flavour is chocolate fudge chunk.

I am happiest when I’m travelling in a different country for the first time.

I love finding and sharing new music that I totally adore but get annoyed if other people don’t share my enthusiasm, which I know is out of order.

I am appalling with money.

I can shop with gusto for an hour or so but then become bored out of my brain.

I love words and collect my favourite ones in a book.

I cry too much at fictional films and books and not enough about real life.