About This Blog

Tired of Men…and other things that drive a twenty-something round the twist is the tale of a quirky Jamaican Chinese woman with a sometimes Irish accent, sometimes English accent, who has had more dodgy dates, boyfriends and chat-ups than she’s had hot dinners, often whilst tottering around on her beloved FMB's*. I write the blog because I'm fascinated by men and their entertaining and often bewildering quirks, plus I seem to have a lot of calamities and escapades that I wouldn't believe unless I wrote it down.

Whilst making entertainment out of my love wrangles, I battled with a disease called sarcoidosis. At the time of writing this, I have had this inflammatory disease which affects my immune system and manifests itself in a variety of annoying ways throughout my body for almost 5 years. In August 2005, 2 months after coming off a year’s course of steroids and following that up with a flare up, I started doing kinesiology and then followed that up with acupuncture in February 2006 which has totally turned my illness around and given me a new lease of life. I have been in remission since May 2006. The blog has provided an outlet for highlighting my disease and also has brought me in contact with many other sufferers.

I also like to generally take the piss out of life, colleagues (I'm on maternity leave at the moment), stinking London commuters and my beloved friends and family and one day when I look back on this, I'll probably wonder why I haven't been locked away…

What makes someone start a blog? In my case, I read an article about blogging several months before I started up, filed it away for future reference and then forgot about it, till I went on yet another bad date with a Mr Nice Guy (otherwise known as PC Plod) who left me confused about dating and relationships as I stifled yawns and did almost all of the talking for the date. I woke up early the following morning and I felt compelled to start telling my tale. As I typed away I felt much better as I wrote down the hilarities of offending PC Plod with my piss-taking antics and explored my exasperation with the general female allergy to liking ‘Nice Guy’s’.

Prior to starting my blog, I had a chequered love life which consisted of a few dodgy boyfriends, multiple dodgy chat-ups and snogs, an ex-fiance now ‘fondly’ known as Mr Brown Suit, and a disastrous liason with Male Best Friend, who never did quite leave that girlfriend….Once I started my blog, I still had a chequered love life…and this blog has seen more ups and downs than a whore’s pair of knickers. A lot has happened though since I started blogging more than three years ago. I've left behind the bad dates, emotionally unavailable men, and commitment issues, and I'm now loved up with the boyf and our baby.

I don't hate men, quite the contrary, but they're a strange species that entertain and bewilder me so often that I never run out of things to write about. I have contributed to several other blogs, and also run Baggage Reclaim, a no BS guide to single living, dating, relationships and man taming.

Updated 7th Nov 2006
*FMB's - F*ck Me Boots or Knee High Boots