Showing posts with label 2023. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2023. Show all posts

Monday, 1 January 2024

Looking Forward - Looking Back 10 Years!


January 2023

So, another year, another start-the-year blog post. Except, this time round, as promised last January, it has to be a bit special. I started this primarily photographic blog ten years ago (or it will be ten years come February, because my first ever post was Saturday, 8th February 2014).


So, another year and now a 10th Anniversary blog post. Who’d have thought? Well, I certainly didn’t back in February 2014. Indeed, I worried whether the blog would make it through 2014. If truth be told, last year I wondered whether I’d make it through 2023. I only managed ten posts last year – the lowest level of posting in the ten years this blog has been running. “Why was that?” you ask.

February 2023


Well, actually, you probably don’t, because, let’s face it, this blog and its owner don’t exactly have influencer status, which may be one of the reasons I felt, last year, that both I and the blog were running out of steam. I also had a lot of “stuff” going on and, whilst I was still taking photos, many of last year’s photos were phone pics. The pics made it on to my personal Facebook page, but few were posted here because, well, you know, quality.

 

So, as this is a post in which I look back and look forward. I’m going to make a thing of 2023’s phone pics. On and around the text of this post you will find twelve photographs taken on my phone in 2023, one for every month of the year just gone. The link going forward is that I undertake to post at least twelve posts in 2024, one for every month of the year to come. I may post more, who knows? I certainly don’t. You can, however, expect to find a post for each month of 2024. There will, hopefully, be new photos, but there may also be photos from the archives. It’s going to be a proper ten-year anniversary celebration.

 

March 2023


As they say, watch this space...















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December 2023


Monday, 6 February 2023

Mostly Robins

 


Half a dozen pictures, mostly of robins, taken on an early February walk






Tuesday, 3 January 2023

New Year's Thoughts 2023

So, yes, it’s that time of year again. The time that every year, since I started this blog way back in 2014, I’ve written a post to herald in the New Year whilst reflecting on the old. Next year, if I make it, it will have to be a big post because this blog will have been going for ten years, a whole decade, yikes! This year, however, it’s just been nine years, so I’m not going to make a big song and dance out of it.

 

To be honest, I’m not really sure what wise words to say about 2022 and I’m even less certain what to say about 2023. I don’t even have a plan for this blog. 

 

Do I do another photo-diary type year, upload themed posts, link things more closely to my writing and books, ask for prompts via this blog and Facebook? I’ve no idea. If you have any thoughts about what you might like to see on this blog in 2023, do leave me a comment below. 

 

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with a few photos from 2022 that I don’t think I’ve posted previously. They are mostly autumnal, but I'm feeling in an autumnal state of mind, and yes, I do realise it's January - that's the point of this post - but one's moods don't always match the seasons even if, in 2022, my photos did.