So. About me, then. Let’s see.

I’m Australian but – don’t worry – my blood is that of the motherland: my parents are English. I studied in Germany and now I live in the Netherlands. I teach English here. This means I devote hours of my day to helping Dutch medical students get a hold on the elusive long vowel in various anatomical nouns. (A-nus is one. Vag-i-na’s another favourite.)

My three favourite things in qualitative order are pie, semicolons, and muffins. Muffins come third because I only like the vanilla choc-chip ones – chocolate choc-chip is just too chocolatey, and vanilla on its own is all kinds of wet blankety. I do spend a lot of time thinking about food consumption but I’m a rotten cook, so I can possibly best be described a somewhat frustrated eater. Also, I don’t like jam.

I like cities that are old, especially if they’re specifically called Altstadt or some such. Then you really know you’re getting what you came for. Places with cobblestones are a particular favourite, especially if they have window boxes. I don’t mind the kind of flower, so long as it’s red.

I’m not going to bang on about travel here though, because that’s what the blog is for. After all, this is About Me. Other likes and dislikes? Clearly I’m quite partial to vaguely self-indulgent digital documentation and pretentious About Me abstracts, so I guess you could call me a post-post-modernist. Also because I like sentences that cut off half –