All blogged up...

I thought it was about time I explained myself, ‘came clean’ if you will. About my blog – well what can I tell you?

I’ve had quite a few people comment both on the blog (thanks to all who have commented - if I know you like it I can do more and if I know you don’t like it I’ll still do it but at least I know you don’t like it - after all ‘it is all about me’) and I’ve had comments by mail, twitter, facebook and (gasp!) to my face.

Some people find it all a little weird, others a lot weird. Thanks! One of the things I set out to do when I started blogging was to expand my own horizons and (I hoped) the horizons of the people I hoped would read it. It has worked for me - I hope it has for you. I spend a lot of my free time thinking ‘blog’, usually in the early hours, planning what to try next, how I’m going to keep your attention, what might interest you, what interests me. Often though the best things aren’t planned, they just come along or happen spontaneously – it’s almost like the blog has got a life of its own, sometimes I could swear that it talks to me.

Not everyone gets all of it - some don’t get any of it, and that’s okay.

As you know my wife thinks the ‘Bloody Blog’ is really annoying. In her eyes it takes up way too much of my time and her husband (me) has turned into a weirdo as a result – actually she knows that I’ve always been a weirdo and that the blog is just the most recent manifestation of my weirdness – but I do get where she’s coming from. I’m continually looking for blogging opportunities.

Think about this.

How would you feel if your partner carried a rubber duck with them everywhere they went and thought nothing of getting his rubber duck out in public, laying down on the ground - despite the crowds of people - and then photographing said duck in quite ridiculous circumstances and in the most public of public places? How can I blame her for sitting a hundred yards away while I do this and then pretending that she doesn’t know me until we are completely clear of the bemused crowd I seem to attract? It has to be hard to accept that your partner has a friend who is made of rubber, looks like a duck, and is called Dubby – and it must be even harder if your partner’s duck has a girlfriend called Dilly who is also a duck, made from rubber and covered in large pink flowers.

And then there’s Misty. Misty is at least a real cat, but if your loved one began to claim that they knew what a cat was thinking and that the thinking was about surrealist painting and the frustration of not having any painting materials – well, what would you do? Call the doctor? Call the police? Run away very quickly?

And what about all those beach sculptures? Would you be happy to spend hours on the beach whilst the ‘mad person’ that you used to know so well collects rubbish and rocks, and then makes the silliest things out of them, weaving strange stories about what they are and how they got there? Hardly normal behaviour is it? Not normal? Who says? Well, Gaynor often points out to me that this kind of behaviour isn’t normal, whatever normal is – and I can see her point I think.

I don’t think she minds the memory stuff (well at least the happy memories), and I think I know that she doesn’t mind the ‘event reporting’ stuff - but the dreams, the cloud pictures, my ‘flights of fancy’ – well, yes I can see how that could seem strange – and I know that she doesn’t like me sharing her recipes.

WAWL is an experiment. I'm just seeing where it meanders, what boundaries it crosses, taking in the countryside it travels through, enjoying the company of it's inhabitants - whether they be cats, memories, rubber ducks, dead heroes, whoever and whatever - it's almost like having my own country to play with.

So where will the ‘Bloody Blog’ go next? The answer is I don’t know and that is probably why I like it so much - no not like, love. I have absolutely no idea where it is going or what is going to happen next. This time last week I had no idea that I’d be in touch with Orson Welles or that he’d be commenting on the blog, and I haven’t any inkling who or what will be in the blog this time next week. It’s a changing, living, fluid thing - although not all of it is exactly, strictly, absolutely, true – it is an experience to be enjoyed and be in no doubt - I am enjoying it.

If that ever stops then so will the blog, I’ll let you know if it happens - but for now it really is a wonderful life.

What’s that? Oh yes, the blog says thanks for reading him and he’ll try his best to keep on entertaining you (please don’t tell Gaynor that the blog can talk, she’ll have me sectioned).

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