I used to blog, and I really do me blog a lot. From mid 2003 till late 2008 I had my own server, I blogged about everything many many times a day, and I loved it. But at the end of my blogging days, I had family members criticising me about content that I put on of my civil partnership. I had not asked any of my siblings to it because we just wanted something small and to our way of liking especially without any interference. The photos that were taken that day I started to put on my site, my stepfather decided that he did not want the pictures there as one of my sisters may be pissed off at the fact that he and my mother were there. I replied that it was my site, my wedding, and to get over himself. However, the critique and messages started to come thick and fast, and in the end, having my own Britney Speers moment, I lost the plot and deleted the whole site. Thousands of posts, photographs and close to 6 years of input vanished. I did not delete it in the usual way either, I went full tilt and made it beyond recovery using military grade software. Needless to say, I was angry with the reaction of family, and it really did spoil the day, yes it was after the wedding, but I look back and remember it not for the lovely day that it was (drunken too), but for the spleen venting that came after.
I learned my lesson that family should be blocked from knowing about my writings, and any social media that I am on. 9 years later and they are truly blocked on all social sites, and I never tell of any writings I have done over the years. I have tried to blog and everytime closed them down as I did not feel I had it in me, again the bitterness of the past creeping into what was a passion.
Now, 2017, I feel I want to write and blog again. I have a passion for knitting photography and reading, so this will be a main base for my blog, mosstly knitting though as I love it. I have in the past few months written poety, so maybe that will apear here too, who knows. One thing I do know, I am here to stay.
Till next time….
Mr Knitter 