Flickring Flames

It's been a week and a half since I wrote anything here, and that I think is the longest gap between two entries since I started this blog six moons or so ago. It's also only the tenth entry this month, again a far cry from the likes of December when I managed a post every single day (and given that December is a pretty hectic time for me, that was quite an achievement, I thought)

So what's changed? Well, maybe I just didn't feel like blogging. I've not been feeling too great since my last entry, I've noticed I've been feeling quite tired a lot, and there's been pain in my legs (and occasionally my left side). I've just put it down to particularly heavy days at work, but I must admit I'm a little concerned about myself. I had plans for last weekend (which was a three-day weekend for me) but found myself spending most of it lying in bed or sitting on the couch - I didn't feel like doing much else. Not good. Whatever is wrong, I hope it goes away soon - but my tiredness and the fact it's meaning I'm not doing much except working and sleeping meant there wasn't much to blog about over the last few days.

I don't seem to be alone in this lack of blogging either. A few of my online friends & contacts have also been writing a lot less than usual in their blogs (and in one case, closed the blog completely). In their cases I put that down to the fact that they're quite busy with things at the moment - and also enjoying life. I remember reading something about keeping journals, and the fact that we're more likely to keep journals when things aren't going quite so well for us - when times are good, we're so busy enjoying life that we don't have time to write anything, and perhaps there's truth in that.

Anyway, yesterday was a really good day I think - it was tiring but productive at work, and then I went home and after a few hours snooze Groupie came round and we got some pictures taken for the girls at the Popular Podcast - they'd sent me a free t-shirt with the podcast logo on, and wanted some pics of me wearing it for their Flickr group. I told them sure, and I'd get Groupie to pose in the shirt too if they wanted. The plan was to get that done at the weekend, but me feeling less than great scuppered those plans, so it had to wait till last night when she came over - but we had a great time taking a few snaps and then deciding which ones to send to the group.

Which of course meant I had to join Flickr...but I've been feeling like doing that for quite a while, so today after work I created my account and uploaded my first photos. I'm not sure how much I'll use Flickr in the future - I am no David Bailey, not by any stretch of the imagination - but then I wasn't sure how much I'd use Twitter, or last.fm, or the blog... so maybe you should keep watching...

See you in May then, month of my birthday - and Eurovision...

BUCKS FIZZ - MY CAMERA NEVER LIES
(from the album "Are You Ready?", 1982)