ABOUT ME
Hey, I'm Ash
My name is Ashley Platt, and the founder and editor of lethalpasty.com. It is my second attempt at a blog after my original plattyleaks blog sadly died and never recovered.
So welcome to Lethal Pasty; if you know me and think about it, you may work out why it's called this. So here's me in a few sentences.
I'm an ex-pat who has lived across the Middle East for the last 14 years; I'm married to a saint of a wife. I have three amazing grownup sons (Yes, I'm called Ashley, and I'm a male for any Americans reading it's an English thing), a Bulldog, Parrot, and it now looks like a stray cat whom I have called Clyde, who seems to have made me its dad without me noticing until it was too late.
As we get into this blog, you will learn more about my typical dry English, sarcastic sense of humour, and what it's like to have lived in the Middle East.
My Story
I was born in a small town just outside Manchester in the UK at the end of the 60s. At school, I was pretty quiet but not bad at sports, as I could run pretty quickly.
I decided to join the Military at 16 and had an amazing 5 years visiting amazing countries, meeting interesting people and climbing their mountains canoeing down their rivers, or cycling through their towns I was still fast at running but not quite as quick as I was before
So At 21, I left the Military with a bit of a sore knee and went into the wines and spirits trade working in a department store and selling the one thing that I seemed to spend all my money on in the Military. At this stage, I could just about run
Next, I kinda fell into railways working across many roles in the operations side of things like ticket inspector tram driver and finally into the control room. I got fat so I stopped running!
In 2009 I moved to the Middle East to work on Rail projects across the region and liked it so much that I'm still here, moving from country to country. Definitely too hot, and I have two bad knees now to start running again, so I started walking, but that's another story.
