Contrary to what you might assume having glanced at the preceding couple of pages, I am neither a duck nor a radio, but an accountant. I was a going to type “wannabe-accountant” to convey the fact that I am not yet qualified, but then I stopped lest that should give people the erroneous idea that I want to be an accountant. I ended up as an accountant due to a strange twist of fate otherwise known as a bad career choice and have remained an accountant ever since due to the lack of better ideas.

My boyfriend created this website for me as a present for my twenty fourth birthday. It came as somewhat of a surprise. He had promised to make one for me some months ago, as a sort of afterthought to the fact that he was making himself one, but somehow the idea never seemed to get off the ground. First there were technical problems with different browsers, then there were other commitments which needed to be fulfilled first, and since my website was the least important of all the websites which he had promised to create, it kept getting pushed to the bottom of the pile. Or so I thought…

For the few weeks before my birthday he had been behaving a little strangely. No, I must rephrase that; a little more strangely than usual. Firstly he told me he was working on something secret that he couldn’t tell me about, which made me feel rather upset. Although I go by the name of Radio Clare, I would have liked to have thought that he knew me well enough to know that I can be trusted with small secrets.

Then I caught him staying up working until weird hours of the early morning, but he fobbed me off with plausible excuses which I readily swallowed, being the naïve little girlfriend which I evidently am. He claimed afterwards that there were various clues which I should have picked up on and times when he nearly blew his cover, but it was all lost on me. It didn’t occur to me to question his protestations of extreme business; indeed, I kept trying to make reassuring noises to the tune that no of course I didn’t mind when he did my website and yes of course I realised that everybody else was more important than me.

So, when my birthday dawned and he linked me to this… well, I nearly fainted with the shock! It is quite definitely the most attractive website I could hope for, a hundred times better than I could ever have envisaged it being, and every time I log on to it I am so happy that I have to keep spontaneously mailing him to say thank you

And as if that wasn’t enough, I got a further birthday present in the form of Ed, the world’s cutest hot water bottle cover, who you can see pictured in pride of place below.
The evidence would appear to suggest that I have quite a special boyfriend but you have to weigh this up against the fact that he thinks wrestling is a sport, wears a Transformers watch and is genetically incapable of being punctual, to assess the extent to which this is a fair compensation for what I regularly suffer

The idea of the website is for me to write all my incredibly long daily ramblings in cyberspace, and hence help to save the environment by cutting the UK’s annual paper consumption in half. I apologise in advance that all of my posts will be long, and that some of them may not make sense. Others may end up being in Esperanto, which is just a clever ploy to confuse people. So, feel free to have a nose around, and enjoy