Today I\u2019ll be interviewing Dr Kirsty Jordan, a middle aged white female anaesthetist from Wellington in New Zealand, who has just set up a blog, AccordingtoKirsty.com. Kirsty is married to the long-suffering Simon, a GP, and has three wonderful daughters; two lovely dogs, and one grumpy old one; five fish; and one fabulous nanny that they still haven\u2019t managed to get rid of even though the youngest children leave home next year.<\/p>\n
Now, Kirsty – let me ask you – what on Earth makes you think that anyone would have the slightest \u00a0interest in anything you might have to say?<\/p>\n
Thank you, and yes that\u2019s an excellent question…<\/p>\n
Lovely sandals, by the way \u00a0(Harry, do you think you can get the sandals into the shot?)<\/p>\n
…Umm yes, well, I used to do these sort of newsy work emails, you know… and people seemed to like them… and I thought, why not do a blog, you know? Like, start one\u00a0before\u00a0<\/em>I have some sort of life changing tragedy, because then it would have to be about\u00a0that\u00a0<\/em>then, wouldn\u2019t it? And then it couldn\u2019t just be silly and meaningless, but would have to be all sad and serious. Also, I designed the entire blog by myself. Well, i mean, it\u2019s the default setting, I realize that, but actually the whole succulents in a bowl thing, it\u2019s quite nice really. OK, its not really my style, not at all actually, but it\u2019s still quite tasteful, which I could be. Well, you did say my sandals were nice.<\/p>\n Well, OK then, thanks very much, Kirsty, and good luck with your blog, i know there are hundreds of thousands of blogs out there, written by all sorts of people with more experience, looks, charm, and, lets face it, talent than you have – but that\u2019s no reason why you can\u2019t manage to succeed against all the incredibly strong odds that are stacked against you. \u00a0Cheers!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today I\u2019ll be interviewing Dr Kirsty Jordan, a middle aged white female<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa8Ukf-1c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12479,"url":"https:\/\/accordingtokirsty.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/doppelganger\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"Doppelg\u00e4nger","author":"Interloper11","date":"December 12, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"I was chatting to the assistant Zumba instructor, a tiny Asian woman, \u00a0before class the other day, and she asked me if I was learning the tango. 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