….because I am! I come from a one parent family (who doesn’t now), have a brother and sister (nicely balanced), went to a regular secondary school (no academy status for us), my mum’s a teacher (boring!) and enjoy Eastenders and Jeremey Kyle (like everyone I know!); so why (Why?), why (WHHHHYYYYY?) does my life feel like a movie? NORMAL people don’t have random strangers banging on the office window, asking for a date; NORMAL people don’t have school friends knocking on the door at midnight, on the day of your grandfather’s funeral, with a pretend light sabre, declaring their undying love; NORMAL people don’t have music festivals in their back garden for their birthdays; NORMAL people sit in an office from 9 til 5 (without the benefit of Dolly Parton singing it to them) and then travel home to dinner and a night in front of the telly! I’m no longer normal! And it’s because I am no longer normal that I am now blogging. I should write a book. I should have started writing a book 7 years ago when my birthday party (at home) was attended by 150 people! I think it may have started there, or maybe it was earlier, I really can’t remember but I do know that the speed with which my life moves I would never have time to go back and revisit these events and keep up with what is happening now, so I will blog. You can’t start a book in the middle of the story and my story needs to be saved, and here is where it will be saved. Should there be the odd day that isn’t rammed full of incidents then I may revisit some old ones, but until then I will start in the middle, and that’s today!