You may have noticed that, for the first time since beginning this blog, I said that I’d put the blog on hiatus and stuck to it. This was partly due to Personal Matters throwing a wrench in my mojo, but it was also partly due to wanting to take some time to work out what I’d like to do with this blog.

What I’ve come up with is this: I want to blog more consistently. More predictably. No more abandoning this place for a week or two and then firing off three posts in a day! I’m going to schedule three posts every week. Not that three posts is necessarily all you’ll get, mind. But there’ll be at least three. And here’s what they’ll be:

Serious business is for Saturdays. This is where you’ll get my reasonably well-considered opinions on things. Pontificating on society and whatnot.

Mondays will be less serious- anecdotes, things I’ve cooked, places I’ve been. ‘Cause who wants something serious on a Monday? Not me.

Wednesdays? Wednesdays are for linkspams. Because I frickin’ love linkspams, and I firmly believe that people who do/write awesome things online should get all the sharing they can.

Aside from that, I just want to thank everyone for all the support and wishes in the past few weeks. It’s been a tough time- still is. As often happens at times like this, though, I’ve been incredibly touched and overwhelmed by the people around me. Both online and offline. I’m lucky to know you lot.

It’s good to be back!

Well, hello there! So, if you’re anything like me, you’re sitting about in your dressing-gown trying to get some work done*, catching up on laundry, contemplating what kind of new start you should be having for the new year, and eyeing up the last half-dozen mince pies.
If you are not doing this, congratulations! Those of you with actual non-pyjama pants on, I salute you. Here, have a mince pie. They’re M&S, you know. Very tasty indeed.

In the meantime, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like to do with this blog. So far, it’s mainly been a place for me to ramble on about my various opinions on things. While that’s lovely and all, I have a few other ideas for semi-regular things I’d like to include which could vary it up a bit, most of which are rather more closely related to my real life than I’d originally intended this blog to be. So in 2011, expect to see a lot (more) of the following:

Conversations I Have With People On Trains And Buses While I Am Knitting And Commuting
I may need an ever-so-slightly snappier title for this one. However, my current job involves an awful lot of travelling around the country. Since I don’t yet drive**, that involves a lot of time on buses and trains. To keep myself entertained, I knit! And you know something? Picking up a pair of sticks and some yarn in a public place makes all the awesomest old ladies want to talk to you.

Nifty Pictures I Have Taken
Like I said above, I spend an awful lot of time on buses and trains. And bus stops, and train stations, wandering down adorable little country roads and exploring towns and villages. I like to bring my camera along! It would be nice to pop up a post of Nifty Pictures What I Have Taken every week or two. These might even involve pictures I have taken of things which I have made while having conversations with people on buses and trains. You never know! This, by the way, is also my way of getting myself to get off my bum and actually upload pics from my camera more than once every few months.

And that will be that. I don’t want to overload with a whole lot of new things to write about and end up giving up after a month. And I think that Pictures, Conversations On Trains, and Opinions I Have On Things are a pretty good start, all told.

Hope you’re all having a good start to the year!

*Aaaaah, Working From Home Days, I love them so.
**Completely normal, by the way, for a non-American. Just so all you USians know.

I’ve been thinking an awful lot about this blog. I have ideas pretty much daily for things to blog about. They don’t get written, though, for two major reasons:

*Firstly, I tend to do my thinking about things to write about either in the shower, or on my bike. Both of these are times when I don’t have access to the internet, as well as being times when I’m likely to be running off to Do Something Or Other either right then, or right after. By the time I’m done with my errands, I’ve likely completely forgotten what I wanted to talk about. This one.. this one I can’t do much about, save keeping a notebook for taking notes with me. Which I do. It’s full of notes. Oops.

*Secondly, and more importantly: I think of posts like essays. I think of the several different issues I want to touch on on each post, and how I’m going to construct it, and before I know it it’s turned into a novel in my head. Sitting down to write novels? It’s intimidating!

So my promise now is: I shall write nice short entries about things. If I have a topic that needs lots of talking about? I’ll write it bit by bit and you can have it over several days. I want to make a commitment to write at least two entries here per week, but I don’t want to set myself up for failure. However, I’ll do my best to check in here at least every few days, okay?

Right. There we are.

Now it’s stopped raining, so I’m off into town to drop off some post, pop into work for an hour to take care of some things, and then head out into the vast wildernesses of The Countryside to help a friend of mine move house.

I haven’t forgotten about this! The past couple of weeks have been wonderful and crazy, and I have a stack of posts just waiting to get written. And this week I’m on a particularly antisocial shift at work, so I’m sure I’ll get a bunch done.

But I am alive!