I WISH A VERY HAPPY AND, ABOVE ALL, HEALTHY 2026 TO ALL MY READERS
.....assuming that I still have any.
Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
I have just realised that it it is two months since I last posted on this blog. I'm pretty sure that's the longest gap since I started the blog in 2007 - 19 years ago. In some of the early years I also had my New Zealand blog for half the year.
Life has been very busy and despite still being able (thankfully) to keep going from getting up around 7am until bedtime, usually between 11pm and midnight, I haven't had to resort to afternoon naps yet. Which is a good job because more often that not I'm not at home! Falling asleep in shops or when visiting friends isn't a good look.
I am also finding it more difficult to find something interesting to write about. Perhaps it was always like that but my standards of what was interesting were lower. Who knows? Is there anyone left out there who cares?
What is worse, is that I'm losing touch with all those in Blogland whose blogs I also used to read. After all, that is, or was, what blogging was all about and so many friendships have been made over the last couple of decades.
This morning as I write this I am also listening to (and sort of watching) the New Year's Concert from Vienna on the television. Wonderful. Oh how I miss the years when I was between 16 and 30 and had a friend (now very long dead despite being of an age with me) with whom I used to go every week in the season to the wonderful Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Liverpool's superb Philharmonic Hall.
Thank God you are alive and ready to embark upon another year long voyage across The Sea of Time. There be dragons! Happy New Year and do not leave it so long next time Graham. I kept worrying about you!
ReplyDeleteOf course you still have readers, and you know it.
ReplyDeleteAs for finding interesting things to write about, one person‘s ordinary life is another person‘s interesting read.
Afternoon naps? For decaded, I didn‘t know what a nap is. Since 2018, I struggle when I can‘t have 20 minutes or half an hour to myself early afternoon. Life has somehow become much more exhausting since then.
Anyway - welcome back, and Happy New Year to you, too!
I am so very pleased to see you back here again. As Meike says, other bloggers' daily lives are of great interest to many of us so keep on doing whatever you do and tell us all about it!
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YP, Meike and JayCee have said it all. Happy to see you back. Reading about the small moments--good and bad--in others lives of people like you (and YP, M and JC) is, frankly, more valuable and interesting than the mindless chatter of so-called (and usually vacuous) influencers. Write on!
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health and lovely sunsets.
Happy New Year!🎉
ReplyDeleteWhenever you post, it is a good day.
The world atmosphere is grim compared to years ago. Thinking of interesting things to post about is easier when the sun shines.
Watching camping and hiking videos on Youtube is a brain exercise delight. Several channels I watch are based in the UK. Imagine prepping veggies by a campfire. It has me wondering why not prep at home; and, why is this entertaining!? Out of the usual is good in moderation.
Be well and enjoy 2026!
May
Welcome back to blogland...all the best for 2026. 🙂
ReplyDeleteI am pleased to see a post from you as I am always interested to see what you are up to and we have been friends for many years in blogland.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year, Graham! I hope this means you've added "more blogging" to your list of New Year's resolutions? For my own part I feel like I've been asleep or half asleep more than awake during this holiday period, but luckily Blogland is still only a few clicks away... ;)
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