I am quite surprised at some of what I read here. Pages in the long thread of discussions about the English Language being a reason for boring blogs.. But (should a sentance be started by that word then?) people are just relating their day or week.. People can read it for the first time and never go back if they don't like it.
There are many websites that we all visit, not just boaters blogs, once and don't like. Do we go back? No we don't.
I started my blog in 2004 because my family kept phoning me up "You OK Mum, Where are you, where are you going? What's the weather like?" It was time for the blog and peace and quiet from the phone calls!
Since then I have done a few a week. To be honest I have enjoyed in the main, although sometimes I struggle to put something on the page for them. I ask the question often "Is it getting boring for you?" Heh, hoping they say yes and I can forget a one and half ritual most evenings composing words and pictures for them!
But (that really naughty start a sentance word again) there is also a bigger following now. We have welcomed an awful lot of people aboard who just want to see what it is really like to be a couple with no bricks and mortar.. what is it really like inside a narrowboat.
Sometimes I just want to hide away, but the blog I do seems to inspire people as well as delight my Dad at 80 many + who diligently sits at the computer after breakfast every morning to look at the pictures.. Hey although I say were we are he never gets that bit! No worry..
I will keep my blog in my sig. It isn't really an advert, just a suggestion to people to look at an alternative retirement from sitting in a chair all day watching the box.
Do you know what? We have met some wonderful friends in the last seven years because of the blog, it is a special community of boating bloggers, not all just a special few and it is always party time when we meet up!
I won't do a spell check on this post. It is just my words