Drifting In Uncharted Seas
blog of a 40-someting cat wrangler in WalesArchive for August, 2006
well that didn’t take long!
Well, I did it. I enjoyed using wordpress here and found it was easier than I thought. So, I bought a new domain and webspace and have set up wordpress there. And that was also easier than I thought, though I did have a wobbly moment when I typed in the password wrong! What am I like. Anyway, the new blog is:
See you there!
day three: have started eating own leg
Did that get your attention? Probably not. I don’t know if I like this wordpress thing, though I can see that it has some advantages over manually blogging. I’m even thinking of buying a new domain and setting up my own wordpress blog there instead. But I still prefer LiveJournal. The community aspect of LJ wins out over the anonymity of WP. At LJ it was just a short moment before I had built up a readership. My friendslist became full of people who were genuinely friends and who did a lot to pull me through a really bad time. But here, I feel like I’m standing on top of a mountain in company with thousands of others. And we are all shouting into the wind, but not listening to anyone. How did you do it? If anyone is reading this of course. I know, I know, I should blog or journal or whatever for myself, but being honest here, an audience is necessary if this is not to turn into a form of word-wanking. (Am I allowed to say that? Should a 40-something wife and mother say that? Probably not. But no one’s looking so I think I got away with it!)
worn to a frazzle
Oh my, I’m still knackered after yesterday. We all got up early so we could go to Hay-On-Wye for a book hunt! Thing is, we had to go through Brecon and wouldn’t you know it, it was the second day of the Brecon jaz festival. And guess who hates jazz? (Hint: me!) I hate being in Brecon during the festival as most folks seem to take it as nothing more than an excuse to be able to get roaring drunk in the street, walk around with plastic pints and be generally offensive. While there are children around as well. The main street is closed off to traffic as there are lots of food stalls and other stalls, as well as the places where (ugh) jazz is being played. Mind you, I did spot Cleo Laine in a car going to the Brecon theatre as we were walking along there to the canal.
Hello world!
Well, yes, hello world! It would seem silly to have got this blog when I already have one at LiveJournal and a Vox. But I once tried to fit a wordpress blog into one of my domains and failed miserably. The thing is, I have no understanding of php or things like that (and hate them anyway) so was unable to work out how to fit the blog into my domain’s style. In the end, I gave up. And anyway, it seemed as if it sucked up horrifying amounts of bandwidth. So here I am instead, letting wordpress do all the nasty, fiddly code stuff. Nice wordpress, bless ‘em!
So, what to write about? I daresay all first posts are rather bland and “oh my goodness, what to say”. You don’t know me, I don’t know you. I can’t say go look at my LJ as it’s locked. If anyone is reading this, then just hang on, I’m sure it will get more interesting later on (I hope it will anyway). A potted bio? Okay, well, I’m 45 and married with a 20-year-old daughter and 6 cats. We currently live in Merthyr Tydfil, in south Wales but are moving to Aberystwyth in a month. Our daughter is a student there and we just fell in love with the town. We’re not actually Welsh; we came here from the north east of England in 1993 (though my husband is a Brummie). We’re Welsh by adoption.
Well, that will do for now. Bore da!
