Welcome to my new home

Greetings gentle reader, and welcome to my new home. For (almost) three years I have been blogging my rather frustrating existence, charting the highs and lows of my blood pressure as I have undertaken daily battle with the world and all the annoyances that it contains. There have been some good times and quite a few bad ones, but predominantly there has been an awful lot of stress and frustration. If you are new to this blog, let me introduce you to some of the people in it:

DK: that's me. Its not my real name. In fact, its not even my real initials, but what the heck.

OD: this is my delightful fifteen year old daughter who, despite having trashed my house earlier this year (including setting fire to my garden), now lives with me. You will soon realise that since her relocation in June of this year, my blog is now pretty much dominated by my dealings with her.

YD: this is my lovely twelve year old daughter. She lives with her Mum in NW2 and stays with me most weekends.

The Beast of Willesden Green: this is the Mother of my children. I gave her this nickname when we first split about twelve years ago. Actually I feel a bit mean about still calling her it, but what the heck - she deserved it at the time.

The Wing Commander: friend and drummer in my band [yeah, I know; I'm too old to have a band. Ahhhh.. shuddupppp!]

The Dame: friend and guitarist in my band.

BotS: Small ginger ex-girlfriend.

Matron, Zeph, Cookie, The Chingford Massive: other friends who will undoubtedly crop up from time to time

I could go on but I'm already bored myself. Let the blogging commence!