How uncanny

Its been near enough a year since I've posted on my blog. Well, it's 9 days shy of that but that's just being pedantic. :-P

Anyhoo, a year has gone by since I last posted and this is the only time I've thought of posting to provide an update with regards to where things are right now.

Its been one of the weirdest years (if not THE weirdest year) of my life.

I've just read some of my last update so I guess that's the best place to start.

I didn't take the job in Frankfurt. I got offered it but...It just didn't feel right. The place was nice, although it was like Manchester with more sausages and nicer buildings.
Also, It just felt like I was running away for the sake of it. Showing people how I was serious about starting a new life in a new place.
People were nice but it was a *cough* party town and quite frankly, I'm way too old for all that rubbish all the time.

So, I decided to stay in the UK. Although little did I know that I'd be starting a new life in a new place anyway. I'll come to that later.

With the job offer though it was one of 'those moments' in life.
Y'know, one of those points on the road where a clear choice had to be made. The consequences of either action would mean my life would go down a completely different road.
So, things did turn out a lot differently but not in the way I expected.

I met someone very special about 3 weeks after all this.

Jo came into my life when I was least expecting it. She was beautiful,kind,funny,strong,clever,interesting,lively and a lot of other things aside.

She quite literally blew me away.

We met on a dating site, I'd had a date or two through it before but nothing of note. I wasn't looking for anything but a bit of company. At that point, that's all I got.

We started talking on the Tuesday, we met by the Saturday on a date in Manchester.
We talked for 10 hours on one day before we met. It was amazing.

The first date was the best one of my life. Seriously, this woman was brilliant. I knew i'd found someone special...

More later.