NORTHERN PLANNER

Hello, it's been quite a while since the last post. Truth is, I haven't been lazy, I haven't found there's nothing to write about, I've just been too busy lately. Doing a 160 mile round trip to work is never condusive to spare time, but there's just been too much to do. I'm guessing that come October and the arrival of our new baby, this won't get any better.

To be honest, I had considered just packing the whole thing in for a while. I've found that writing a blog, like so many things, is all about momentum. You need to find a rythm, build up some sort of pace and the posts just type themselves. It's a bit like going to they gymn, it's much harder to go a couple of times a week than it is to go every other day. Writing little and often is hard.

But I'm going to carry on. Not for any vanity reasons I hasten to add, I'm not labouring under the illusion that any one is panting with antipation about the next Northern Planner post, willing their RSS to show something. I hope that the basics stuff is useful and will continue to be, I think that stuff is really important, but really, this blog is for me.

It's forced me to keep writing something, to keep interested, it's allowed me to try out a thing or two. This is a good thing. The job's hard work, there's little time to think out of the here and now. A blog forces you to do that. And then there's the community. I've met a lot of people I wouldn't have, I'm part of a community that I simply wouldn't be without blogging and stuff.

These are all reasons to carry on. Posts will not be as regular as they once were, but I'm  going to try and find some cadence again.

Anyway