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Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Laura Sandys Gets a Blog and a bit of a ramble
11 comments:
Comments, since I started writing this blog in 2007 the way the internet works has changed a lot, comments and dialogue here were once viable in an open and anonymous sense. Now if you comment here I will only allow the comment if it seems to make sense and be related to what the post is about. I link the majority of my posts to the main local Facebook groups and to my Facebook account, “Michael Child” I guess the main Ramsgate Facebook group is We Love Ramsgate. For the most part the comments and dialogue related to the posts here goes on there. As for the rest of it, well this blog handles images better than Facebook, which is why I don’t post directly to my Facebook account, although if I take a lot of photos I am so lazy that I paste them directly from my camera card to my bookshop website and put a link on this blog.
Michael I am bored with blogging and maybe I should try art. I can hardly hold a pencil properly nowadays so it may be rather abstract. I once wanted to paint but gave it up but I feel anything would be preferable to blogging.
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Not sure if this is any help.
Don if you do I would get a propelling pencil so you don’t have to sharpen it, leaving a pad and pencil by the loo with something to draw, is a good way of getting started.
ReplyDeleteBut yes I am getting a bit bored with blogging, most of the material relates to the council, which as they move at snails pace is pretty tedious.
Peter I think that this is part of the problem, being part of a lively blogging scene is interesting, whereas posting about Thanet in isolation just isn’t.
Painting and drawing, especially people’s faces and trying to get a likeness is interesting, but I think it a bit unfair to combine this with a local blog involving local people. After Lara’s stockpot posting, I could for instance have done something based on the Goats Head Soup gatefold, however I desisted.
I was very nearly expelled from school for drawing, the victims on the whole don’t like it very much as you may understand. Perhaps something on more national or international level would be better, more acceptable to put the president or prime minister in the soup, than ones own MP, if you see what I mean.
3.32 not much help as it doesn’t tell me how to do it.
Local residents with a modicum of positive aspiration for the area will view this news with absolute delight, happy painting Michael, I wouldn't give up your day to soon!
ReplyDelete6.53 you seem to be having trouble getting your message across here, you started well with those big words and then it all fell to pieces, perhaps you would like to have another go, trying to say what you mean that is.
ReplyDeletePlease don't stop blogging. Reading your contributions has become an established part of my daily routine and I find them informative and entertaining.
ReplyDeleteHow long before Thanet residents start up a "No to Michael quitting blogging" campaign ??
ReplyDeleteRossM - having been blessed with such acerbic wit and a keen interest in impartiality and getting to grips with the facts of a situation before commentating, maybe you are well-placed to take over the reins.
ReplyDeleteSo much for showing commitment to Thanet's unemployed:
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Maybe a "No to Anonymous Blogging" campaign would be better ?
ReplyDeleteWhats this KM news about a large Thanet airport up for sale?
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