Starting to blog again (this may be sung to the tune of ‘Falling In Love Again’) after a lapse of nearly three years. In the meantime (in between time – why does every sentence I type remind me of a popular song?) blogging has become very big indeed. Millions of people now blog, and I imagine that much of the output is dreary stuff, of interest only to the blogger and his or her nearest and dearest (assuming that the n. and d. hasn’t long ago packed his or her bags and gone off in search of a new partner who has a life).
There are, of course, many thousands of well-written, interesting, thought-provoking blogs out there. If you’ve yet to dip your toe into the blogocean, have a look at the Technorati site (see link top left). It’s amazing and rather terrifying to be confronted by this tsunami of cyberspatial verbosity. Why do people do it? Why am I doing it? Vanity, I suppose, at bottom.
Well of course in my case it’s not vanity. No, no. I started doing it, as I said in my first blog, just to find out how it was done so that I could pass the knowledge on to my daughter-in-law, Janice Day. I found that I quite liked seeing my thoughts on the screen, even though I suspected that no-one else was seeing them, and continued to blog sporadically.
I see that up to now I’ve only ever published five postings – a pretty miserable record – but perhaps this time it will be different. I have more time on my hands (there I go again!), the steady stream of gigs that I used to experience having slowed to a mere trickle. The diminuendo in quantity, however, is balanced by a crescendo in quality. I’ve had only three gigs so far this year, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every one of them. Look out for my next blog to find out why.