I like the sea. Sometimes I get tired of how land-locked Stoke-on-Trent is and need to escape to the seaside. This photo isn’t my idea of what the seaside is and I’m often scared that in the proposed fight against costal errosion and the potential effects of climate change, this will be what the seaside becomes for the masses. Coastal defences, shaped thoughtfully for people to picnic on, smooth for cyclists and roller blading, but stark, soulless and lifeless in general. No sand in sight, just the gently turning daisy field of an off-shore wind farm.
I find this picture quite bleak, despite the clutch of tourists at the end, it seems like quite a lonely picture.
This will be the last blog post on Endless Possibilities v2.0. For many reasons I’ve decided to stop blogging on Nature Network. I’m going to continue blogging over at my more ‘professional’ website, but hopefully going to use the (not cheap) web hosting package that I’ve got to do some new stuff that I’ve been thinking about. I’ve been blogging here for about 6 months and have no desire to become one of those bloggers that writes every few months to apologize for the lack of posts then disappears into the ether. Corie tells me that it is likely that they’ll leave the archived posts up which is fine with me, and I’ll still be a member of Nature Network. Perhaps I’ll even get around to commenting more if I feel less guilty about not writing here as much as I should!
Be seeing you…
Oh, that’s too bad. I’ll keep reading at the other place though. I hope you’ll pass on the new URLs when they become active!
We’re sad to see you go, but glad that you’ll still be around here on NN.
Sorry to see your blog go. Do you mean you’ll be doing more on http://www.kjhaxton.com/?
Guilt is a terrible feeling to associate with something you are presumably doing simply because you enjoy it. Of course, if you a re NOT enjoying it, then you probably shouldn’t do it.
Personally, I refuse to feel guilty about something I am NOT doing. (It is much more fun to feel guilty about something you have actually done!) I am not in the habit of doing things I don’t want to do, so I NEVER apologize for not blogging, because obviously, if I had really wanted to do it, I would have.
And as for readers who get whingey about a dry spell…I think that sharing ones writing is a form of gift giving – and I don’t take kindly to attaching guilt to gifts either!
Lose the guilt and enjoy your other blogging adventures. And don’t forget to Have Fun!
Sorry to hear this, Katherine! Good luck with that ‘new stuff’ :)
I’ll be here: http://www.possibilitiesendless.com/ for blogging, and will turn http://www.kjhaxton.com more into my research website. I’ll link the two together however.
Thanks for the good wishes!
I will look forward to coming across your comments, at least. Your remark about apologies and disappearances hit home! Best wishes for all the rest, and I’ll look for further dramatic chemistry demonstrations on your other site.