Why Don't We Do It In The Road ?
Well, tonight I bumped into my MP (alright Dave), in t'Willow and he informed me
that he reads my Blog ! OMG - nobody else I know does. When I first started doing
this I decided to keep it to myself. I had a few reasons for taking this course of
action: first of all I had read a "diary of a week" I had kept in the early 80s.
Reading it back to myself after all these years, triggered memories of
long-forgotten episodes that are - in retrospect - mundane, but, at the same time,
profoundly interesting because they are newspaper-like in the way they pin your immediate thoughts to the events (national, local or personal), of the day.Hmmmm......reading these entries back after 10 years, as a personal, historical document, they are fascinatng. But, by the same token, they are intensly boring to the casual reader. Boring to the writer as well after a few days. Unless you're a Pepys or a Benn. Viewed after 10 years, though, they are amazing. Viewed after a couple of weeks, they're crap. Unless you resist the need to read your recent Blog entries, the project eventually dies on its arse and you move on to other things.
The question is: how do I continue now that I know someone from *real life* who reads my Blog ? I mean, I'm not a "heart-on-my-sleeve" type. You're not going to find out anything "deep and meaningful" about me. Yes you'll understand when City depress me (quite possibly this weekend during the Manchester Derby). You may even grasp my political, musical and literary preferences, but, as a certain Mr Gordon Sumner once sang: "you'll still know nothin' 'bout me."
When I started this Blog, the intention was to see if I could keep it up for at least a year. A year - at the time - seemed impossible. But I stuck at it and, eventually, I started to look upon my postings as therapy. A release. A valve. It's been a hard year, the first year we, as a family, have had to address serious medical issues affecting nearest and dearest for example, but I think I just might be doing this a year from now.
Incidentally, my MP is too busy to Blog - after listening to his "typical day" scenario I reckon he is. He could *comment* though; couldn't he ?
Today, the very wonderfull postman brought the latest bargains from Amazon. Stevie Wonder's "Innervisions", Bob Dylan's masterful "Blood on the Tracks and Simon and Garfunkel's unbelievable "Bookends" are all now on *repeat* on my HiFi.
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