the WHO and the WHY

So I suppose even if this blog is really for my own pleasure and as an aide-memoire for my old age, and well, my current age, I should perhaps write a bit about myself. 


I have no particular connection with the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia as some people have asked when I give out my email address. I've never been there. I had to pick an email name and I happened to read a Readers Digest article about the rainforest in Qld earlier and since then I've used the daintree name liberally in my internet life. Did I just give a clue for hackers? Oh crap. 


Out of curiosity, I looked up the name Daintree just now. Is it Aboriginal? Such an unusual word. No. It is a surname and the rainforest is named after a Richard Daintree. To quote:


This uncommon name is of Anglo-Saxon origin, and a locational surname deriving from the place called Daventry in Northamptonshire; the surname, found as Daintree, Daintrey and Daintry, represents the accepted local pronunciation of the placename. Daventry is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Daventrei", and in the 1199 Feet of Fines of the county as "Dauintre", and the name means "Dafa's tree", derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century personal name "Dafa" (perhaps from the verb "gedafen", fitting), with "treow", tree. Locational surnames, such as this, were acquired by the lord of the manor, and local landowners, and especially by those former inhabitants who had moved to another area, and were thereafter best identified by the name of their birthplace.

Read more: http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Daintree#ixzz1sDiud2pq


Wiki and I'm not afraid to use it, says that the Daintree rainforest is and this makes me smile, an Important Bird Area, IBA for short and contains 18% of Australia's bird species. 


So, I am indeed 'after 30' and I live in Melbourne, Australia. I would like to talk about my job but for privacy reasons, I can't but suffice it to say that I work in a long suffering health profession, and I would like to GET OUT! But don't worry folks in Melbourne-land and beyond, you're in safe hands with me. I'm a conscientious worker. 


I don't have a particular focus for this blog. I mean I'm not passionate about food, makeup, coffees, or travelling. I might throw in a few reviews. I started writing simply because I forget. I forget a lot and it started to worry at me that I look back and all I remember is either the bad/embarassing or sad. I mean there's been a lot of sad but I want to remember the good, the funny, the happy. Maybe writing about my life will help me live more consciously. An examined life. 


I am supremely terrified that I will be the same person in 10 years. 


An origin story, the focus of this blog, my fears. That's a good enough introduction for now.