Blogging

My first post in this blog, Life in Culerbrón, was on January 5th 2006. The first entry was about me having drunk too much brandy (the more things change the more they stay the same) and the second entry was about stonework falling through our ceiling. The entries are a day apart and neither is long; the first is just three lines and the second about fifteen.

The idea of the blog then was simple. We were reasonably new to Spain; we'd been resident about fifteen months and we'd lived in the house in Culebrón for around eight or nine months. Blogging was relatively new and I didn't know what a blog was. Nowadays I don't know why I'd want to load videos to TikTok. The difference is that I started to blog, and I've kept going, whereas I've only ever tikked, or tokked, to see how it works.

It was relatively easy to write the blog in the early days. Something new was happening to me all the time and I just wrote about that something. For instance in those last few days of January 2006, after the ceiling incident, I talked about buying gas bottles, about my car (a 1977 MGB GT) passing the ITV roadworthiness test, the water freezing in the pipes and the snow falling.

Nowadays the blog is different. The pieces are far too long, I have difficulty thinking of new topics and they can get a bit metaphysical. Metaphysical may not be the right word. What I mean is that I don't just say I went to see a dance company who were brilliant (I, we did by the way and if you see Ibérica Danza performing anywhere I recommend them wholeheartedly) I try, by labyrinthine means, to tie that into a much more complex whole. 

So, I've decided that I'm going to rewind to those early blogs and try and do some much shorter entries about things. Let's see how it works. Let's see how long I remember and let's see if the controllers of Pinoso Community, where I often post the blogs, as well as to the homepage, mind.