Made a momentous decision this morning (after talking about
it for long enough) to try writing a blog. Inspired by my niece Melanie who
writes hers as if she just won “author of the year”… she’s witty, eloquent,
poignant and informative… quite sickening really considering she’s only been at
it (blogging that is) for a couple of months!
Anyway I finally took the plunge! I got my title easily… life
has thrown many crossroads in my direction especially from my late twenties
onwards. Once I decided to start, I was already in the romantic, nostalgic,
picturesque worlds of New Zealand, Scotland, the Lake District, Paris, the
Eastern seaboard of America, Wigan… Wigan!?!? Well I guess one could not
describe Wigan in quite such superlatives but it is where I encountered my
first real crossroad and for that I shall always be grateful. The events of
Wigan and actually, one would have to admit a one way street right out of
there, will be the subject of my first real blog. Bet your anticipation is
already at an unparralled high! But first I need to talk about the road block I
encountered whilst trying to load up the car and get on the blogger road so to speak!
Sometime in the past two or
three weeks I must have decided to create a blog complete with passwords and
user names and probably inspired and fortified by a couple of very large
glasses of Sauvignon Blanc- I guess I was already “Googled”! Consequently
today, being merely bored and with too much time on my hands, when I tried to
create a new blog I was already created! Compound this problem with the fact
that my lovely daughter Lauren also has a blog and you can picture the
situation. Instead of all those lovely creative juices flowing I became a woman
of manic proportions resorting to yelling at the screen, “But I’ve already
bloody done that!,” taking deep breaths to avoid hyperventilating and even more
pissed off because I couldn’t relax this volatile situation with a calming
glass of wine as I have to drive later… for those of you doing a "dead ant"
right now, I know it’s hard to believe but I can be sensible if I have to be!
How did I resolve this you ask? Well I’m not exactly sure what I did but
finally there I was with a big Blog Spot just waiting to be filled!
Okay, here goes… memory mode in full force… only to be
interrupted by a Google “You need to sign in again” kind of message that once
again incites loud expletives which serve no useful purpose other than to make
my dog bark! I am very proud to announce that I finally got it all going after
receiving a code from Google by text- now that in itself is an achievement of
which I am really proud.Ya boo sucks to my textless friends who at this point
would have been threatening to twist some ones Googles very tightly!
So there you have it, I am ready to be a blogger… sadly for
you, the delights of the Wigan crossroads will have to wait a big longer!
