No news today except for the fact that the blog is 6 years old today and I am 46. Ouch! As a whole last year was a pretty horrid affair. and I was glad to turn my back it. My father celebrated the end of 2009 by breaking his ankle on New Year’s Eve! Says it all really 🙂.
But in spite of the hours spent in Accident and Emergency in north Wales (an interesting anthropological experience in its own right) we are both feeling that 2010 is already a much better place to be. I am very much enjoying working on the online magazine with Kate, and most of my other projects have come back to life too. Looking ahead, my father and I are booked into one of Jane’s apartments in Luxor for two weeks at Christmas this year, which we are both looking forward to SO much! Do get in touch if you’re planning to be there at the same time.
Vincent Brown remarked to me a couple of weeks ago that blogging builds communities of people who have never met, and recently Kate Phizackerley posted to her visitors a thank-you message for making her blog a real living community. I too have plenty of experience of having great online conversations with visitors with whom I have never met. A blog seems like such a static thing until people start responding and discussing matters and offering moral support, and then it seems anything but static or abstract. There’s nothing abstract about a web community! It is something that continues to surprise and really delight me. I hope that the magazine will build on that and encourage even greater involvement.
I am up in Wales with my father, with a case of Pouilly Fume, another of Rioja and a bottle of pink Champagne. It’s promising to be a very good extended birthday!
Is it just me or is 2010 flying past at a staggering rate? I cannot believe we are at the end of March already. Perhaps it’s just a sign of getting old!
Huge hugs to all
Andie
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