NORTHERN PLANNER

Hello how are you? If you're reading this, you're part of an even smaller minority than when blogs by planner types was a thing. 

If was a lovely time that felt like a little community of oddballs, which is pretty much what it feels like to be in a planning department when you think of it. Back then, you had to look over your shoulder a little, as what you were writing would come under a certain level of scrutiny and it was important to make sure you didn't put your employers (and therefore yourself) in a difficult position. 

Of course, these days, everyone is on LinkedIn and blogs feel like a relic of bygone age, so it's exactly the right time to start blogging again.

Because I can write as if no one was looking or cared (and mostly they don't).

Because it can be be what blogging was for me, a place to work things out.

Because blogs were a wonderful place where people who knew what they were doing shared knowledge, and people like me could get helped.

A little different to LinkedIn today when people who often don't know what they're doing will tell you anyway and the algorithm favours shock value of thoughtfulness.

Let me be clear, I still don't know what I'm doing, but I'm going to quietly work out some stuff in public, maybe sometimes, someone starting out will find it helpful.

There will be rubbish about tea, swimming and other bits and bobs but there you go.