About
- I have something to say. It’s Like It Is
- Britgirl describes me pretty well
- I was born in England, grew up in London, England and now live in Toronto
- I’m very candid and independent minded
- I have lived in Canada for seven years
- I think living abroad has made me feel even more British
- I really enjoy my life in Toronto
- I was born on January 22nd
- I love Toronto and I’ve made many friends here
- I love rollerblading and cycling
- I moved to Toronto two years after meeting my husband
- We met through Match.com, nine years ago
- I was living in London. He was living in Toronto
- I was against a long distance relationship – until we met
- We married three years later in London, England
- We are a true Internet success story
- People we meet are always fascinated with the story of how we met
- Without the internet we would never have met
- We celebrated our 5th wedding anniversary on May 31st 2008
- We got married in England on the hottest day for over 20 years
- I have five brothers and sisters. I’m the eldest
- They all live in England, we visit every year if we can
- I’ve always been closer to my brother than my sisters
- My husband has two older sisters who are 12 and 10 years older than he is
- I have two nieces and a new nephew
- I have lots of cousins
- I have several aunts and uncles
- My parents wanted me to be a doctor or lawyer
- I’m a business executive and professional copywriter
- We have no pets and don’t want any
- My husband and I chose not to have children. Yes, really.
- We are child-free, not childless, thank you
- For the record, we like children, we just don’t want any
- Our decision is seen as strange – by many people. Usually strangers.
- I feel passionately that having children is a choice
- I think that most people don’t ever consider they have a choice
- Some have told us we don’t have a choice.. the church for example.
- Screw that
- I stopped going to church several years ago
- I was scared I was losing my ability to think for myself
- My faith remains important to me
- Most of my family will never really understand my not wanting children
- I’m content they simply accept it
- I’ve never felt the need to be a mother
- No-one has ever explained to me exactly why I need to be a mother, just that I should be one
- I think there is a gulf between women with children and the child-free
- I believe that our thoughts shape our lives
- I think kindness is the most wonderful virtue and often underrated
- I know the Law of Attraction works
- I’ve had some amazing results and I’ve recorded them
- I am a gadget nut addict and love to have the latest
- I meditate most days, it keeps me balanced
- I love clothes. I really, really love clothes.
- I have countless pairs of shoes and jackets. And jeans.
- I like the people I work with
- I’m not getting a tattoo
- Ive been called a clothes horse
- I believe if you don’t like your job, you should find one that you do
- I believe if you stay in a job you don’t like, you shouldn’t complain
- I love old films and t.v. shows
- Unfortunately I also love schlocky disaster films
- I love old WWII and British period films
- I love documentaries
- Between us my husband and I have over 1,300 500 DVDs
- They include films, documentaries and t.v. shows
- We watch very little actual t.v.
- Six Feet Under is one of my all-time favourite t.v shows
- The Wire is one of the best shows ever.
- I have too many favourite songs to name just one
- When I was little I was known as a bookworm
- I read every Enid Blyton book that was in print
- I have a couple of books on the go at any one time
- I’m an avid list maker.
- I’m very focused
- I have an Honours degree in French and Portuguese
- I’m very adventurous, but a calculated risk taker
- I love travelling
- Moving to Canada was a risk worth taking
- I took a chance and completely changed my life
- I had a great and successful life in London
- I believe that’s why I have a successful life in Canada
- I have two homes – England and Canada
- I have a very dry sense of humour
- What I miss most about England is the British sense of humour
- I find it hard to tolerate fools
- I have an MBA
- I find small-talk banal, but necessary for many social events
- I love meeting interesting people
- My goal in learning to play Poker was to keep a “poker face”
- I am a photography enthusiast
- I play in two poker groups, a ladies one and a guy’s one
- I play squash and have been in a house league for 6 years
- I play pool and would love to be better at it. I would be if I practiced
- I hate injustice, unfairness, impolite people, racist people and dissemblers
- I’m afraid that our rights to free speech are slowly being eroded
- I think that political correctness sometimes borders on the bizarre
- I sometimes feel overwhelmed by all the human misery in our world
- I dislike arrogant, impolite, pompous twerps. Ignorant ones too
- I am trying to do my little bit where I can
- I wonder how long it’d take to write another 100 things about me…
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I finally found your list — I think I am getting more familiar with your layout over here. You are a most fascinating woman.
Thank you!
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Holy Guacamole girl! You have already have made a list of “100″ when you haven’t yet made 100 posts. WOW! am I ever impressed.
Thanks for being do forth coming about who you are. There’s nothing that encourages me more to beat a hasty retreat and click out of a blog site than an “about” page that’s blank. Which brings me to your effective use of the more… [hmmm I'm really going to have to learn how to use it on my blog].
Both my beloved and I are from large families. Like you I’m the eldest in mine and “he” is the second eldest in his. There’s an age difference between us. I’m older than he. What can I say ? I kept sending him away and he kept coming back for more… before he actually got any, if you know what I mean. Anyway when we did get together and later married we decided to remain “child-free” too and we have never regretted it.
It was great visting you and I’ll be back again on day soon. Until then, take good care.
timethief
Timethief, thanks for dropping by and for your comments. The “more” function is one of the best things about Wordpress – and there are many. It is perfect for long posts which is why I use it. It also pushes up page views, something I learnt in the Forum somewhere. I’ll be back to visit your blog soon.
Hi britgirl. I took some time to cruise around uor site clicked on professional and read then clicked on about and read again. I was left with two inter-related questions. (1) What is your profession? (2) And what kind of company do you work for?
Bye for now.
Thanks for cruising. I’m a professional copywriter and business person.
Damn, that’s long. I don’t think I could come up with that many things to say about myself.
Child Free WOOT!!!!
Sure you can! You’d be surprised. Once you start, it’s pretty easy.
WOOT is like Ya! or Great! or some other kind of rallying call. The geek definition is located here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W00t
Nice concept for a presentation…
wow thats a really long list
thanks for adding scribez to your blog roll 
we added you to our blogroll
Hello britgirl! Thank you for taking a look at my blog
You list is very interesting, most of all, your love story 
It sounds very romantic!
I love it when two people find themselves through the internet.
You lead a very interesting life, and your internet success story just blows my mind. Its so great you were able to find love, and sustain it over the 3 years you’ve been married.
I love your blog too, very nice and heaps of great content.
I just randomly came accross your blog and your list of a 100 things is really good.
I have to especially agree with no. 6. I live in the UK, but I’m German and since living here I’ve felt a lot more ‘German’ than I used to.
Anyways, nice read, nice blog.
@justin – thanks so much for your comments!
@Carocat – thank you!
“38. Screw that”
ROTFLMAO
Now that’s classic!
@Chris – LOL!!
i met my fiancee online, she is american, but she wants to become a british citizen, we met via a message board, and its 2 years last september ..
we are both cf, i didnt know the term cf existed before i met her..
Hello Britgirl,
I’ve been reading your blog (silently) for some time and I really enjoy it. You write very well about topics I’m interested in so I come back often. We don’t often know who’s reading our blogs but no doubt a lot of people read and enjoy yours a great deal.
Hello Christine – welcome (although you’re probably quite at home already) and thank you very much
Hope you continue to enjoy Like It Is!
I love your site and it seems that you and your husband have much in common with my husband and I . I look forward to meeting both of you soon at an upcoming Childless by Choice dinner in Toronto.
Britgirl, I took a cue from you with this list and created one for my Wikipedia page. I also put it on my blog’s “About” page. I could only think about 50 interesting things about me
. I call ‘em “Fast Facts”.
Hey Chris – this is why I love these “About” Lists
They tell you so much more…
Really enjoyed yours. It seems we both got married in the same month – May – and with five days difference. heh. And I also dislike mushrooms, but will eat them in certain foods. I also love puzzles. I have always admired mathematically minded people – perhaps because I’ve always wished I could be one myself… I can do the basics of course – well, a little more than the basics, but I would have loved to be able to really master it and at school it was the stuff of bad schoold days. Oh well, can’t have everything… I also watch very little TV – as you know, I do watch DVD’s.
By the way, that little cat is soo cute!!
Hi Britgirl – saw your kind comment about the new Sphere Plug-in for WordPress – thx, much appreciated.
Best,
Tony
Hi Brit Girl…
I just found your blog accidently.
I love it. Very much.
I just curious, what’s your favorite’s movie ever? I am also have a dvd collections, and romantic comedy movie keep my life brighten.
Anyway, I’ll visit your blog regularly.
English is not my mother language, so apologize me for any mispelling grammar.
Love, M
Hello M – Thank you for stopping by and for your kind comments
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I would have to say that my all-time favourite movie is Midnight Run. It’s not as well known as it should be, but I love it. I’ve watched it more than five times. I am a Robert DeNiro fan. But I have lot’s of movies that I like… it’s hard to choose just one. Did you read my two movie posts? Calling all Movie Buffs! and Movie Buffs, Your favourite quotes? Have fun, and look forward to you visiting again.
Hey Brit Girl!
So much we have in common! I’m also cf, also met my bf on match, and I’m also from toronto! i live in california now though… its waaaaay better down here
. That said I do miss timmy ho’s, swiss chalet, and my little apt at yonge and eg! One thing I DON”T miss is the snow!
Kudos to you for startint this blog. I’m thinking of starting a site myself.
Best,
Caren
Cheers Caren! Thanks for dropping by
A funny story: When I was little I picked up on people confabbing over women in their late teens to twenties, who needed to hurry up and get married and have babies. From this I came up with the conclusion that females automatically became pregnant at that age, and for some reason it was a disgrace if you didn’t find a man to marry. What a relief when I found out it wasn’t true: that I could choose whether or not to be a mother! I chose not to, but I must confess, I call myself Mom when speaking to my dogs.
Hi Britgirl, Nice blog. I am astonished at how many people feel like passing judgement on people who choose to be child-free. It’s a personal decision, and frankly nobody elses’s business. For what it’s worth, I’m a pediatric nurse in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I do phone triage. That means that every day at work, I get to talk with people about their sick kids. An astonishing number of these people have no business having children(some of these parents, we are not talking about a gene-pool, we are talking about a gene wading-pool). A lot of people are really not prepared for the work and sacrifice that you need to do a good job of rasing kids. Just because I chose to have kids with my wife, does not mean it is a good decsion for everybody. People really need to weigh it out, and I think people like you and Explosive Bombchelle bring up some good points on the subject. If somebody really feels that strongly about having kids, go and procreate, and leave people alone who choose to be childfree.
I just came across your website today and love your writing. I noticed that you focus a lot on being child-free (love that term!). My husband and I decided to have children, it’s not for everyone and no one has the right to tell you it is. That’s just plain ignorant. If you’re happy with your life, why mess with it? Anyway, I look forward to exploring the rest of your site. I always enjoy a good read.
Hi Britgirl!
I’m a Britgirl too and happened to stumble across your site today. I’m SO pleased that I did. You’re an inspiration. My husband and I moved to the US from London over 2 years ago for his work and I too had a very successful life there; wonderful family and friends and a sucessful career in the business world. We’ve always questioned our decision to have children but when we moved to the US we decided I should give up my career and move to a ’sensible’ area and start a family. This is what people kept telling us we should be doing, especially at my age (!) and especially because my husband is an expat out here and would could be a better time?
We could never bring ourselves to lose the birth control … we started listening to the voices inside our heads telling us this wasn’t for us (after pushing it to the back of our minds for years) and after a depressing couple of years of losing sight of who I am, realising what we really want, and not listening to other people telling us ‘we’ll regret it’ I’ve decided it’s time to take control of MY life again! We no longer feel guilty about our decision and it’s time now to get my career back on track and move back to the city! Something I have felt awful about doing but now I know that was such a foolish mindset!
I’m so looking forward to reading your blog again, you sound just like the type of friend I’d enjoy meeting over a glass of wine! Thank you for making me feel that there’s not something wrong with me and it’s O.K to be childfree.
x
Just came across your site and I absolutely love it! I just recently wrote an article about parents wanting us to be as miserable as they are and boy, did parents get pissed!
http://unscriptedlife.net/articles/im-convinced-misery-loves-company
I am glad that there are logical, educated women out there such as yourself that are advocates for those women who have been thoughtful enough to think through a life altering decision rather than just “doing it” b/c that is what is expected of us. Thank you for such a great site!
Hi – I’m a 60yr old + woman, 6 weeks blogging, and trying to put together my blog pages. I saw your disclaimer language on Timethief’s page and I’d like permission to use some of it. May I please? I’m so new at this, I don’t know what I’ll use exactly, but I’ve seen the names listed as credits, and I’ll try to figure out how to do that also. Any help/advice you can impart, would be welcome and apprecited. Thank you, Kate
p.s. your site is fantastic! Geez – from your 100 list, that’s the first time I’ve seen that, to the “spams eaten,” – and the first time I’ve seen that -everything is professional yet personal. Congratulations.
Hello Kate, thanks for your kind comments
. Feel free to use my disclaimer, all you need to do to credit it is link to my name – Britgirl. If you use Wordpress, just make a link in the same way as you’d do when you create a post. If you’re friends with Timethief she’ll tell you how she did it. I have your email, so I why don’t I send you it as text and you can edit it. Cheers!
To everyone who’s left a comment here… they are much appreciated and very humbling! Thank you!
Hi Britgirl,
I am sitting here trying to think of something to say that would affect you as much as the way your writing does for me, but I’m not having much luck. I really enjoy reading your posts and wonder that it must be odd that strangers have a sense of who you are and get pleasure out of learning about a person without meeting them.
Anyhow, I’m glad that there are people that are willing to “put themselves out there” like you are and tell it “like it is.”
One of my MBA professors has told me that blogging is very important in this new social media world. Maybe I’ll get up the courage one day to start my own.
I agree you are a most fascinating woman! I’d love to interview you someday. I think you’d be a great role model for many women,