My name is Martin but family and friends (including Tumblr friends) call me Vince. The wonderful LADY in the picture with myself is is my beautiful wife of 37 years Kat.
I love too cook always have just love to play around with and experiment with new recipes, I’m also an avid reader primarily science fiction but I love a good thriller also.
Love a good TV cop drama my favourite is Law & Order SVU used to make my daughter and granddaughter when she lived with us as a teenager watch as a life lesson.
And yes I am that old at 61 I even have great grandchildren (don’t even go there) both my daughter and grand daughter despite our best efforts started young.
I’m an ex British serviceman who met and then married my wife in Canada, we then moved to London England for ten years before moving back to Canada in 1992. We now live on Vancouver Island in British Columbia and they can bury me here.
My musical taste runs the gamut from rock to pop and from artists ranging from Taylor Swift obviously too Queen (my first ever concert at 16) but I really love powerful female artists. Some of who I have seen in concert Tina Turner, Madonna, Sheena Easton who was the opener for Michael Jackson.
My daughter once asked me why I like Taylor so much and it was difficult for her to understand it’s not just that she’s a fantastic singer songwriter but an incredible person beyond the music. I guess to really understand about Taylor the person you have to get beyond the tabloid image of her too realize it goes way beyond the music.
As a swiftie I often feel almost sorry for those who can’t or won’t get beyond that tabloid image.
I was very fortunate to marry a country music fan who introduced me to Love Story way back when Kat and I have plenty in common when it comes too music, but the biggest one is
Era when I moved from a low key Taylor Swift fan too a fanatic (see my URL) 1989 many many reasons for that covered in previous posts and far too long to go into here. Suffice it to say 1989 was and always will be that album.
This was also the one and only time we have seen Taylor in concert in Vancouver BC the only concert that comes close was Shania Twain we went too the Up tour also in Vancouver Shania was great Taylor was Taymazing.
1989 also gave me my favourite Taylor song ever with Wildest Dreams Lover came close to replacing it but not quite.
Taylor inspired me too step out of my comfort zone at the start of the 1989 era and to be brave enough to join SM not something I had ever even thought about before then, I tried Twitter first and that was just too much drama for my taste and that’s how I ended up on Tumblr.
March 5th 2015 is when I started this blog and I had no clue what I was doing (still don’t a lot of the time) so I started out just reposting swifties tour costumes seat # and show dates meet and greet pictures and it took off from there.
May 21st 2015 Taylor followed and I did not even notice until I started getting all these congratulations messages and no idea why. Someone had to point it out to me (Duh) how could you not see that notification.
Four plus years later my blog has grown way beyond my Wildest Dreams (sorry had to) we still have not seen Taylor in concert again reputation did not come to Western Canada and it was far too expensive for us to travel same applies for Lover even if there were tickets available travelling to California is out of our budget, but we live in hope for future tours coming back to Vancouver.
I want to thank you not only for the wonderful music you brought into my life, but also for inspiring me too try new things and meet online and in real life some amazing people. Without Tumblr I would never have me Tracey @worldsoldestswiftie (she’s not I married that one) and at a time when my wife was having life threatening surgery the lady who helped me keep my sanity Courtney Addison @nurseaddison there where multiple times that day that she talked me off the ledge Kat and I will be forever grateful for that.
You have brought a lot of joy into my life through your music and through your examples on how to be a little nicer and a little kinder too others, it costs nothing and makes me happy too be there for others.
