"How do you set up a blog?", I asked my husband and younger daughter the other night. "Oh, it's easy!" was their joint reply. "Why, what are you going to blog about?" To be honest, I'd never really thought about it before. It was the film we were watching that had got me thinking. "Julie & Julia" tells the joint stories of 1950's American TV cook and author, Julia Child, and Julie Powell, who set herself the challenge of cooking her way through all Julia's recipes over 365 days and kept her blog whilst so doing. So, what would I blog about if I started? Does it really matter if all I actually want to do is see if I can do it? If other people can do it, what's stopping me? After all, even I'm on Facebook! So while pottering about today, spending far too long browsing websites, I started thinking and this is what I thought:
- I like typing (having learned to type on a manual machine many, many moons ago)
- I'm always failing to keep a diary because I'm no good at pouring out heart and soul onto paper, being far too flippant by nature, but always wish I wrote down ideas and inspirations because, as the eyesight begins to fail, so too does the memory!
- I'm frequently dabbling in my shed (not any old common or garden shed though, mine has carpet and painted walls and a fan heater ... and often disappears under mountains of scrap material, ribbon, paper, glitter, glue, etc ... so 'fire hazard' might be a better way to describe it!) where I enjoy trying different 'crafty' projects
- I'm looking for something to fill the void that will be left when my younger daughter flies the nest in the not too distant, in fact ominously close, future
Conclusion: Blog about my hobbies and pastimes, even if it's only to remind myself how to do things!
