Ten years ago today I posted my first blog post here
I'd not thought about writing a blog before and I barely even read any - they all seemed to be about teen make-up reviews or really successful rich people wanting to tell us mere mortals how well they were doing.
One day I was searching for winter socks and Google randomly showed a picture of a girl wearing red tights standing in her garden. Back then I was not enjoying my job and was hoping to get back into graphic design and I often saved pictures from image searches just because they included colours I could use in design work for my portfolio. That red was amazing so I clicked on the picture and it took me to the Naturally Dapper blogspot (unfortunately long gone). Ugh - another teen blog was my first thought but then I read the post and it was so well written that I ended up reading every post in the blog over the next few days and continued doing so until it vanished without trace.
This spurred me on into creating my own blog which I initially published weekly, then monthly, then whenever. I discovered video games in 2017 and the blog was something I wanted to do but gaming won out (blame 2B).
I found plenty more great blogs via Blogger Central which also no longer exists. The creator of Blogger Central had her own blog about life in Ireland at a time when she was coming to the end of school life and preparing for university. Annoyingly I can't remember the name of the blog but it was a real work of art - informative and funny.
I briefly returned to blogging as a result of the Spaceships, Vampires and Very Secret Agents blog monthly writing challenge ('Blog Removed' - all the good one's have gone). My last post was on Christmas Eve 2017.
Life intervened in 2020 with family caring duties, the aftermath of a family death and moving house.
I'm hoping to return to blogging with a sort of web comic / short story series. I'd originally wanted to create an animated series for YouTube but quickly realised that it would take far too long with the very limited amount of spare time I have available. We'll see if that happens.
Catch You Later!
