Chart Throb

Hello, how are you? I'm fine thank you.

It has now been a few days since my first post. In that time I have been doing research. In other words, reading other people's blogs. One thing I have noticed from this, is that a huge percentage start with an apology for not having written sooner. It would be easy for me to do this, however, if I start feeling guilty about not writing I will stop writing all together. So, to avoid that inevitable demise I am making you a promise. I will never even attempt to write to any sort of routine or frequency pattern. Sometimes it may be hours between posts, sometimes weeks. Otherwise, there is a slippery slop of uninteresting nothingness for the sake of writing something followed by an inevitable and most complete silence. OK, promise over.

I've been having a crafty day with my two little girls. We have made salt dough Christmas ornaments and orange shortbread. To be more precise it was satsuma shortbread because I didn't have any oranges, but it seems to have worked out quite tasty.

This evening has been a quiet sit on the sofa getting increasingly annoyed at the X Factor.  If you are an X Factor voter please read Chart Throb by Ben Elton and think again! They don't even appear to bother to hide the fact that it is rigged anymore. It's more "look at us fooling you into believing you actually have any influence over who the winner is" attitude What's more, there's nothing you can do about it other than turn off, which is what I now intend to do. I have nothing against the contestants, or anyone on the show personally, but when the audience are shouting one name every week and the other person stays in, something is going wrong! Ooh, quite the rant from the newbie blogger. Oh well, it's late and I'm tired. I shall use that as an excuse. Plus, I'm guessing no one will read this, so I shall be safe?

If anyone does read this and you've got this far, thank you. Until next time. Have a great week.

Introductory Waffle

Well, where to start. I am new to the Blogiverse, or Blogasphere, or whatever the community of bloggers is formally known as. I have read other people's blog for many years, but have always been stopped from creating my own by three main problems...

1) I don't know where to start. What do people want to know about me? Do they really want to know anything?
2) Can I actually write a blog? Do I have a hidden blog writing talent? Do I need one?
3) What do I write blog about?

The third problem is to me the most important. I have noticed that blogs normally have a running theme. For example people blog about their travels, or their everyday life, or their hobbies. I have quite a few hobbies/interests, however I tend to get obsessional about one for a few months, then completely loose interest and go on to another until finally I end up back at the beginning of the circle of my obsession.

Anyway, as I am sure you have by now realised I have now bitten the bullet and decided to write a blog anyway. It will include every subject that I am finding interesting at that given time and as the title of the blog suggests probably be updated every time there's a large pile of ironing that needs doing, or any other household chore that I can ignore, by updating what I am sure will become my oh so important blog!

I look forward to reading other peoples blogs in a quest to learn the art, meet people and be generally be nosy.

So, I shall leave you with this rather odd introduction and hope that you are interested enough to return some day.

P.S. I have now sat here for a few minutes procrastinating over whether or not I should take this leap into the unknown and really start a blog. If you are reading this, then you know that I took the leap.