[Miscellaneous] 1 year on.....

Whilst I was away on my epic tour of the UK, a notable event rather snuck up on me. This blog is now 1 year old!

Woohoo, 1 year old! (Credit: community.webroot.com)

When I started this blog, I was intending to just use it as a diary to note down things that I was getting up to. Then, as normally happens with things I get involved in, it snowballed a little and grew to become something a bit more than that. I started the film reviews and sports reviews, as well as competition reports for lifesaving events, and the originally planned diary style entries. I've really enjoyed it; after my previous experience with Livejournal, I wasn't sure I'd keep it going for long, but I've surprised myself.

Partly it's the writing itself. I find it rather cathartic, and it helps me articulate me thoughts on things a little better sometimes. Partly also I think it's that I'm happy to note down posts I want to do, then write and post them when I have time rather than trying to get everything down immediately (I backdate the posts to the appropriate point, which is why new posts sometimes pop up at random dates several weeks previously!) That's definitely helped me keep the blog going, although I think I could do with being a bit more regular to avoid too much of a backlog building up.

Anyway, fingers crossed that the blog keeps going for another year.

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