First post: an introduction

I'm hoping this blog will survive for longer than the first one, or at least have more than the solitary post that I managed for that one!
Where to start? I've recently been appointed to my first post as lecturer in law in a UK university (start in September). By chance, it is also the university I attended for my undergraduate degree and part of my PhD. I've mixed feelings about that, which I may go into in future posts: it wasn't what I intended but it is what is right for me at this stage in my life as I have just had a hip replacement (at the tender age of 30). The university is in the same city where I had the operation and friends and family are all within close proximity should I need them. The 'new' hip is 9 weeks old today and I've been in love with it since day one. No regrets whatsoever and I would advise any 30 year old who needs one and whose life is constrained by a dodgy hip to go for it. My surgeon has joined my list of "People I would do anything for".
Who knows if I will attract any readers: expect ramblings on my job, my desire to have done medicine, my hip and how it's going (and also how the other one is!), the occasional rants, ahem, and the trials and tribulations that have made up my life so far and how I should deal with them (not always how I do actually deal with them!). I hope any readers get as much out of it as I get out of the blogs I love to read.