Younger son and I were loafing around yesterday evening discussing calluses.
"There used to be one on the side of my little finger too", I told him "when I was at school and did an awful lot more writing than I do now".
"What's the longest thing you've ever written?" he asked me.
"Probably my thesis" I said, racking my brains for the correct answer.
"What about your blog?" he replied.
Ah yes, what about my blog. And of course, he's right - though I have no idea what the word count is, I am pretty sure that over the course of the last 9 years, my total output here has far exceeded the length of anything else I have written in the past or am ever likely to write in the future.
And that simple observation of his has brought me back here. Picking up my virtual pen and hoping that even if my calluses have vanished, that I remember how to do this thing.
And maybe remember why I do this thing too.
So good to see you again!
Posted by: Melissa | 20 April 2015 at 16:09
Good to see you back.
Posted by: Avril Horn | 20 April 2015 at 18:04
about time too! Woman can't live of tennis alone...
(Must meet soon)
Posted by: Monica | 20 April 2015 at 19:50
OMG I can now comment again!! WEIRD.
Posted by: Monica | 20 April 2015 at 19:50
Fab to see you back.
Posted by: lynn | 20 April 2015 at 20:38
Wondered where you'd gone. Was a bit worried. Glad you're ok.
Posted by: Fiona | 20 April 2015 at 23:12
Ps but I don't know if I'd have the discipline to write a blog. I'm too lazy to even write comments often but I love to read your blog. Your writing and photography are inspiring. But don't disappear without saying you're ok 😉
Posted by: Fiona | 20 April 2015 at 23:15
Hurrah! What Monica said about meeting soon -we should. Thinking about hopping back on the blog wagon myself soon.
Posted by: Sue | 21 April 2015 at 09:03
So pleased you're back - your words [few or many] are a pleasure to read and have been missed
Posted by: Julie | 21 April 2015 at 09:32
Lovely to see you! It's all to easy to stop blogging without quite meaning to (I hold my hand up to that one) but it does still hold charm for me. Doesn't mean I'll actually keep writing it with any regularity, but ...
Posted by: dottycookie | 21 April 2015 at 14:34
How lovely to see a post from you. Nine years is quite amazing, not many blogs have been around that long, I'm very impressed. CJ xx
Posted by: CJ | 21 April 2015 at 15:58
Do, please. I like your writing.
Posted by: Angel Jem | 21 April 2015 at 18:12
Well I shall be glad to see your writing more frequently so will be keeping my fingers crossed.
Posted by: Toffeeapple | 21 April 2015 at 19:05
hello. nice sky!
Posted by: driftwood | 21 April 2015 at 21:59
Yes, good to see you back! And beautiful colours in your photo.
Posted by: Louise | 22 April 2015 at 12:53
Hurrah as well!
Posted by: niki thomas | 22 April 2015 at 15:29
Hello there. Val and I were reminiscing about how blogging felt five or six years ago. We'd log on to Google reader and meet up with friends. I'm hoping those days aren't gone completely. It's lovely to read you again x
Posted by: Emma | 22 April 2015 at 18:24
Mmm. Kept popping by to see if you were back and now you are.
I thought you were going to tell us what your thesis was all about...
Ax
Posted by: Magic Bean | 23 April 2015 at 18:12
Just because. And hi.
Posted by: Megan | 28 April 2015 at 12:26
Hello again and what a great comeback with that sky!
Posted by: Paola | 28 April 2015 at 16:30
This seems as good a place as any to write this and ask this question. Where have all the blogs gone? I read craft blogs especially but more general ones too but they are all dropping off, one by one. Do you know why this might be? Are people just burnt out?
Surely a blog is a web log - an account of things happening recently, and they don't stop do they? Even if you ostensibly do the same things everyday (and I do), everyday is very different because I am different everyday and my perceptions change. So I don't get why people run out of things to say. If they were readable last month, then they still are today and tomorrow. We don't stop talking to people around us because we have said it all before.
Anyway, the times they are a changing. Quite sad really. Instagram is not a replacement and neither is Facebook both of which have nothing on a decent blog. Congratulations on those nine years of blogging. It actually seems the older ones are those that are still here. I think it is lack of ulterior motive for starting them in the first place and more of an aptitude for writing for its own sake rather than to market, promote or monetise. A shame how money gets in the way of so many things, for so many people. There was perhaps an innocence in blogging that was replaced by too many people trying to capitalise on it. But without a heart to the writing, that can't work.
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Posted by: domesticali | 20 May 2015 at 16:57
Missed you. Welcome back!
Posted by: (Not That) Joan | 25 May 2015 at 14:42