(Tall Ships in Waterford, Ireland – by Raymond Osborn.)
And how are YOU today?
To tell the truth I don’t much care how you are – I’m tired of asking people that and mollycoddling people and fixing things for people all my working life. You have to mind yourselves now people – I’m outta here! i.e. mary’s on the move!
What am I going to blog about?
I’m going to blog as I blogging feel like it, bitch when I feel like it, celebrate when I feel like it and tell you about it – if I feel like it!
You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll curse me, you’ll disagree with me and maybe you’ll enjoy me. Either way I’m just having a bit of fun with this blogging stuff because I’m no longer a busy bee charging around the country like a blue-ass fly.
Where did I get the name for my blog?
In 2002 I had a good team around me and home was organised so I took a notion to go flash-packing (the opposite to back-packing!) around the world for 6 weeks and maryonthemove was my email address. I met my daughter in New York, flew to Vegas and stayed in The Bellagio, moving on to the Lowes on Venice Beach watching the muscle-men of LA working out morning, noon and night. We hired a flashy gold Mustang convertible for our road-trip to San Francisco via Carmel, Monterey and other gorgeous places along California Highway Number One.
My beloved daughter resumed her gap-year trip and I vamoosed on to Treasure Island in Fiji, then on to New Zealand (and 5 lots of cousins scattered around the two islands). Flashing over to Australia – I lived it up in Sydney, the Whitsunday Islands (where I was rescued from drowning by a young medical student from Sligo), The Great Barrier Reef (in my blue lycra sting-deterring suit – with lumps and bumps aplenty!), skimmed the treetops in a hot air balloon in Cairns and drank in the humidity of Cape Tribulation, finishing up in Koh Samui (Thailand) with a judge and his three children for company. Then home to a somewhat lukewarm reception (yikes! I over did it…).
How often will I be blogging?
I’m an every-second-day woman by reputation but realistically I see myself doing stuff in bursts to start, then, for your delectation – what’s seldom will be wonderful – ha ha!
I’ll probably put my musings on Facebook and Twitter thingies as well.
Topics I hope to blog about;
- Places I’ve been
- Nature
- Musings on my life to date
- Annoyances in my life
- Joys in my life
- Things that might interest you
- Family
- Friends
- Behaviours
- Medical matters
- Business tips
- Wise oldish woman stuff.
- Weird oldish woman stuff
- Happy oldish woman stuff
- Music
- Lies and untruths
- Fictional stuff to keep you guessing whether I’m serious or not!
