The problem
For me blogging was simply an extension of all the writing I’ve always done in notebooks. It was a chance to put things down and get things out of my head. It started with a notebook mum got me for when I went to Annecy on a French exchange when I was 12 (is that right?), a hardback red notebook that I still have even though it’s spine is gone and it’s held together with an elastic band and it’s full of cards, photos, scraps of paper, my UCAS letters. It simply progressed from there, I may take years to fill them but it’s been an ongoing thing and I’ve always kept them around.
The problem has always been that I’ve felt the need to keep two separate blogs, because there are things I’m happy to share and things I only want to share with a limited number of people – or at least to keep it away from certain people. Basically it’s a right pain, keeping them apart. It’s meant that one is that and one is that and neither of them is really me (which I kind of want them to be).
So I thought that I had decided to come back to this blog after trying out Tumblr (it didn’t feel like it was working), at the same time I started a new private Tumblr because I like it does things and because there’s often things that I just want to put down. Anyway that Tumblr has now become my main blog where I put everything… Which is the problem.
We will see how it pans out and it’s the reason that I haven’t been blogging here lately.