I'm in a totally arty mood today. That tends to happen when I'm off work for long enough for my natural character to come through (roughly 2 days - which always makes Mondays pure hell)
Two tasks occupied me for the majority of the day - editing a DVD of the town's history for a local Trust and researching my family tree after some unexpected contacts from abroad.
It turns out my ancestors (all from the Somerset area of UK) were fairly prolific in the late 1800's and I'm busy tracking down family branches in Canada, USA (North Dakota) and Australia. Nothing in the world is new! We think we're free spirited today and travel great distances with work and to seek better lives - well most of our families were doing the same 200, 300 and 400 years ago. Just goes to show how important history is to help us retain some perspective.
Then to take a break I worked on the DVD editing. Coming from a background that was firmly analogue I was used to the comfort of actually splicing and cutting tapes, so doing the same digitally was something of a culture shock at first although I love the immediate results and ability to re-jig things on the fly. I'll post a link here when the deed is done.
I've also decided that this blog will be for my benefit at this stage - getting onto any of the publication lists seems to be a non starter so I'll just focus on my thoughts at present and if anyone else dips in ... so be it.
lennington
Hi Richard,
You said: "I've also decided that this blog will be for my benefit at this stage"
That's good :-) - whilst some bloggers out there attract as much comment and discussion as a column in Helo!, I think most people start out with their Blogs as being just a open diary - any conversations that then arise out of people viewing and commenting are just added bonuses.
My visits to Blog-land (to pen an entry or to read others) are all pretty intermittent - but I'll try to pop back soon.
Keep it up - and best of luck for 2007.