History (& Hers too) - Part I

Last night, a very cool group of Twitterers TokBoxed the night away.  It reminded me of some history that probably isn't all that well known; certainly amongst the blogging community anyway :) In fact, whenever people ask how @machroi and I met, we still look at each other and 'argue' over whose turn it is to tell the story this time.  We usually end up with a short-ish run through of the basics, but never get into much of the detail.  Even when they'd rather we did. So, now that pretty much everyone who ever visits this blog has graduated to be a 'real-life' friend (making my 25 Things song a LIE), it's probably time to tell you a little bit more about us, and in particular, how I managed to convince Northern Ireland to give up one of its' greatest assets and entrust her into my care down here in Australia. And more amazingly, she agreed !  Who'd leave this...
for this ?
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So come around over the next few days, as the story unfolds... And be sure to let me know if you have any (1) questions about the story as revealed so far (not likely, but you're always surprising me) (2) suggestions on how this should be presented for maximum impact (whatever that means), or (3) I have no idea what to ask for (3), it just needed a 3rd question...which it didn't get...maybe next time... And no spoilers if you read and comment, Cee ;)