When I started out (in 2009!), this blog was primarily to allow me to explore WordPress and try things out before publishing them to my website.
Then I got that working (in only a couple of months) so I said I’d turn this blog over to other aspects of things that interest me and share them with friends. “It’s going to be very organic” I said, “it’ll grow as I decide to put more stuff on. But so far I think it’ll be about my animals – 4 guinea pigs; my birds – I’m a keen birdwatcher (not a twitcher, thank you very much!), and my garden. And probably about climate change, waste, composting, sustainable living, how to get my home to be closer to zero-carbon, and maybe when I get round to sorting out the contents of my Dad’s box he’ll be blogging about early commercial aviation from beyond the blue horizon….”
Well, two and a half years on I have other blogs for the guinea pigs and for my Dad’s box; the first is pretty active, with Fred having taken over the blogging aspects from George after he died, and Fred really embracing this medium for his Thoughts! Geoffrey’s Box now contains transcriptions of all Dad’s tapes and I’m working on getting the tapes themselves uploaded, and then there will probably be a multi-media page where the whole story is told more succinctly. The stories I’ve been writing have moved from the guinea pig pages to their own website, and this blog is more about life at home. It’s a Journal really, although I still keep a written journal too.
So its mainly about my garden, my lifestyle and attempts to make it more sustainable, and the journeys that takes me on. Like making more homemade dishes, and baking and preserving. And I learn to make it more proactive and maybe link a bit more with other blogsites and get a bit more connected. After all sustainable living doesn’t mean typing at my keyboard the whole time – it has to connect with other people. So do feel free to comment if you’d like to!
