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Well, as of a few days ago, Curious Perversions in the UK – CPITUK (or at least where it was formally based, http://kwiksand.wordpress.com) is now a year old, and after 12,000 unique (10,500 since September and HD911′s birth) , I’m roaring and ready to increase that by a factor of 10x in the coming 12 months.  Though, as before this depends on a whole bunch of things, the main one being that I actually write something interesting and worth reading.  But I’m committed to acheiving this, so stay tuned for more Shan-anigans as we go along.

The 10,000th Brick

Interestingly enough though:

• This site is almost a year old now;
• We arrived in the UK a year ago (shock horror); and
• I’m getting married on the anniversary being here a year

The Past Twelve Months

But it’s also probably a good idea to look back and reflect on what CPITUK has become, whether or not that progression matches my original intentions when I started it or not.  I guess the driving force behind writing in the first place was to give friends back home some insight as to what is going on in the saga that is Shannon.  As well as this, I wanted a humorous (I’m giving myself too much credit) critique regarding every day life in London and the UK.

I think for the most part, I’ve kept to this general rule, and the mortar between the bricks has been filled talking cod shit (possibly too much filler for this many bricks in the wall, me thinks).  We’ve definitely seen what London has to offer though, and that really makes me think its the second best city in the world (behind Tehran of course).  On the topic of Life and Living in the UK, I’ve covered:

• Work/Contracting
• Tax
• Money and pain/sweetness that is the Aussie Dollar to Pound
• Visa and Immigration
• Alcohol
• The public transport system (more importantly tube closures.

.. to name a few.  But there’s so much untouched ground, so many worthy stories that haven’t found their way to the printing press, and some never will.  But you never know, I’ve been working on a piece of late about the stripper (darling she was), who just wouldn’t leave, despite aggression, threats and a body slam from a rather small human.  Got to hand it to her, she must have had whatever the energiser bunny is on.

The Next Twelve Months

Stay Tuned for:

• more (hopefully) interesting stuff
• much more cod shit
• photo diary style entries of holiday’s abroad, or perhaps weekends at home
• new sections for the site
• the emergence of ShanCo, whenevet it happens

Now lets just see whether I can get that bricks to mortar ratio right.

“If you build it, they will come” – And look where Kevin Costner is now, that’s somethign to aspire to.

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