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Who is Sally Bolton? Gosh this will be the hardest thing I will ever write (unless I am asked to write an article telling small children there is no Santa - only kidding of course there is).

I am an intelligent but rather plumper, older version of Tara Palmer-Tomkinson, no really I am that crazy but I hope in a nice way. At 43 I have firmly refused to grow up, am nocternal by nature (hence the addiction to the internet) and freely admit that I am much more interested in other people’s social lives than my own. An example would be my brother, I registered him for an online dating site without his knowledge - oops. However, like most men would, when he started getting emails from nice women he suddenly decided it wasn’t such a bad idea after all and has just celebrated his second wedding anniversary to a woman I wish he would stop kissing just long enough to take a breath.

My hobbies include talking, chatting and waffling but not necessarily in that order! I really was born to be a public speaker and I started very young, just ask my Mum. While most teenage girls were singing into their hairbrush and practicing their ‘dance moves’ with friends, I was telling the world (well the people in my street) my ‘opinions’ and boy do I have a lot of them. Perhaps I should have been a political candidate, all talk and very little action - rather like some of the men I have met in my life!!

I am now married and divide my time between my marital home in Egypt and my family home in Cumbria UK, where I return to when the weather is unbearably hot, I need food without spice and a decent internet connection to remind me about civilisation. Regular readers will no doubt hear the ups and downs of being married to a man very much my junior, life in a hot desert country and my cat Mishmish, whom I treat like a baby because I never actually had a baby. Have you noticed how women that don’t have children always seem to do that with their pets, that maternal instinct must be stronger than we know.

Three things I am a big fan of:

1. Plain English - people that feel the need to talk down to you need an enema.

2. Honesty, yes good old fashioned honesty. Just think, if we were all honest there would be no war in Iraq and no internet scams but I admit a lot more divorces.

3. Cream cakes.

All of the content on my blog will be my own ramblings, unless otherwise stated. I cannot fathom why people spend so long writing blogs that only other bloggers just glance at in order to get pings or backlinks (I know, it’s a totally different language). Why spend the time? Also this cut and paste of blog content, what is that about? If you can’t think of anything to write about why become a blogger? I shall leave them to their pings and merrily amble along doing my own thing, well why change the habit of a lifetime?

That is all I am divulging about myself at present, you will have to learn about me as we go along - well that is how friendships are usually built. My life is an open book, maybe you will enjoy it as much as I do?

Welcome and have fun.

Sally