One of the beauties of blogging is that geography can be immaterial. I will read your blog even if you live thousands of kilometres (or miles, or stone throws etc) away; even if you complain about the winter while I bask in summer; even if you write with a funny accent; even if we never […]
It’s not even December and yet Christmas is already everywhere: in the shops, in the media, even in people’s annoying Rudolph ringtones. I have just tossed aside a magazine that contained advice on how to avoid Xmas stress - and it stressed me more, because it reminded me of everything that I could get stressed […]
Oh dear… more than two weeks have passed with no blog post. Sorry. On my ‘to do’ list it says Blog, so here I am.
It’s hot here, and I was going to write a post called ‘Ways to Blog on Hot Sunny Days’ but then I remembered I live on the arse end of the […]
It’s common knowledge that most blogs simply die alone.
Starting a blog is damn easy; it takes two seconds. Name and template, then go. But maintaining a blog is not easy and many bloggers give up early, hit the snooze button and nothing happens ever again.
I’ve been guilty of this on a number of blogs over […]
Two days ago, John Frederick Ericson was just your regular convicted axe murderer serving out a life sentence for the brutal killing of his wife seven years ago. He was working in the gardens of the minimum security prison where he’d been transferred because it was felt he could be trusted.
It turned out he couldn’t […]
