I have decided that my blogging break will not be coming to an end.
After just over a month without writing a post of any description I have discovered a freedom and a freshness to life that I did not expect. There has been no more reaching for the camera to photograph something that I am doing or something that I think other people may like or want to see ... I simply enjoy it in the moment for myself, and in that simple action of not reaching out, enjoy it all the more.
No one needs to know what I am doing or eating, where I have been or where I am going, and just this simple mental letting go has been truly liberating.
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I did briefly consider shutting down all but one of my blogs, but then after checking the daily reading figures on all of them, having a good look at the statistics over the last month when they have been left to fend for themselves, and seeing the daily traffic that uses them to access other blogs I have decided that I will leave them online for the foreseeable future.
Thank you for reading my writings over the last 15 years I hope it has been interesting for you.
If on a rainy day you want to have a read of the ramblings of girl who moved from town to country, from farm to smallholding, from smallholding to caravan and then a settling down in a small town by a canal, the pages of the blogs will be there for you to find through the links on the sidebar.
Wishing everybody that reads this, all the very best for the future.
Sue xx
Enjoy your freedom. Josie
ReplyDeleteI for one will miss your posts. Down the years they have been so enjoyable, thought provoking, and inspiring. If you are ever in Norfolk, pop in for a coffee. God bless you richly in your "retirement" - stay happy and healthy 😘 🙏
ReplyDeleteBest wishes Sue. I have enjoyed your blogs very much. Take care of yourself and Alan and the pets.
ReplyDeleteBun
Just wanted to say thank you and good luck for the future. I have been reading for a few years and always enjoyed your blogs. Take care xx
ReplyDeleteI'll miss your positivity and cheery presence in Blogland, Sue. xxx
ReplyDeleteWell, I never thought you would stop permanently - so sad to hear. I shall miss reading.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry that you are stopping, Sue, and I wish you all the best for the future wherever it may take you. ❤️ Catriona
ReplyDeleteOh, I will really miss you, Sue. But I understand how liberating it can feel to let go of something, so I wish you and your beloved ones all the best for the future. Thank you for keeping the blog up for browsing. Love - Sam from Germany
ReplyDeleteI have read your blog and have always enjoyed your challenges and your outlook on things in general...I will miss reading your writings but wish you well as you take on your next adventure without having to document and photograph and share with all of us....you have been a great inspiration and will be missed!!
ReplyDeleteI will miss catching up with you, I've read your blog for many years.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye my friend.
Helen
I have enjoyed reading about your adventures and your animal companions, even if I didn't comment much. You'll be missed, but I wish you all the best.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes
Ellie
Thank you Sue for turning comments back on for a short time. Along with many others I want to say a heartfelt Thank you for all your interesting, honest, informative and sometimes inspiring posts.
ReplyDeleteNothing stays the same forever and I totally understand your need for freedom from the blog.
I'll miss you and wish you and yours all the very best of everything.
Alison in Wales x
I've enjoyed your writings for years. Thank you. And cheers to your newfound freedom.
ReplyDeleteSue I will miss you esp on Facebook be well and be happy Elaine in Cheshire 😘
ReplyDeleteGood for you, we have to be true to ourselves and I know just how you are feeling, all the best to you
ReplyDeleteMarlene xx (blogger from many moons ago)
I'll miss reading about your life and especially your challenges but you have to do what makes YOU happy. I wish nothing but an abundance of good things for you and your family. Thank you for all your inspiration :-) xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for all the years of inspirational blogging. I wish you the best.
ReplyDeleteMaguy (from Brittany)
Thank you for sharing your journeys over the years. You will be greatly missed.
ReplyDeleteSue I wish you all the best for the future and will miss the blog and hints and tips. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteOh I am going to miss your posts! But as everyone else has said, you must do what suits you. I do understand, I think, what you mean about the freedom of not blogging - it sometimes feels like a chore to me, but then I realise I want to blog to - well, talk to everyone! Your blogs have been such an inspiration to me over the years, so thank you very much for that. I hope you and yours have a happy life Sue, and who knows, maybe you'll feel like doing it again in the future (I hope so!). Love and hugs, Sooze, husband and Betty xx
ReplyDeleteSue, like so many of us, I want to thank you for all you have shared through your blogs. I am so pleased you have decided to leave them up as I often dip in to old posts especially the challenges. I have loved your ramblings. I'm also one of those who uses your blog list and it's led me to all sorts of other interesting people. I wish you all the best - and, like Rhonda's Down to Earth, there's always the freedom to come back!
ReplyDeleteI guess there is a season for everything and wisdom is knowing and accepting when one season comes to an end and another starts.
ReplyDeleteSue, I will miss your posts so very much and wish you all the very best. Thank you for all the pleasure and enjoyment your posts have given me over the years.
If you ever feel like popping by my blog, you will be so very welcome.
Much love. xx
I can well understand that. Not sure this new one of mine will last but we shall see.
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to add my own thanks too, Sue, for the happy posts over the years, the thought provoking ones, the inspirational ones and the downright funny ones. You will be missed very much.
ReplyDeleteAll the best for the next stage in your life. I'm sure you will enjoy it to the full. Take care of yourself xx
Thank you for all the hard work you’ve put into your blogs over the years, I’ve enjoyed reading your challenges,musings and observations. Sending very best wishes to you and Alan and four pawed companions.
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I understand that you need this but want to say I will miss your challenges and pondering on life which have been so insightful good wishes Jane x
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for writing your blog all these years. I have enjoyed them very much though a rare commenter. I wish you and your family all the best for the future.
ReplyDeleteSo sad to know that you won't be blogging any longer, Sue, but I do understand the reasons why, having given up on my own blog when it became a chore. Thank you for many years of enjoyable reading. I wish you well and hope you continue to enjoy what you do. Love to Suky, Mavis & Ginger xx
ReplyDeleteI too will miss your positive posts. For me it was a peek into life far from California. Almost all my favorite bloggers are Uk. I do use your blog to link to others so thank you for that. Best adventures to you, Alan Suky, Mavis and Ginger too.
ReplyDeleteGoodbye Sue and thank you. I've read your blogs for years and I will miss them. Wishing you the very best for the future. Maeve
ReplyDeleteSue, you will be missed. I've read your blogs from the beginning! How else would I have learnt about 'worm tea'!!! I loved following all your different adventures and will definitely miss reading your blog and so many others that have stopped over the years. Take care and hugs to you, Allan and the furries❤️❤️
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to read this. I will miss reading your posts, but, I wish you all the best and hope you enjoy not having to blog!
ReplyDeleteYou will be missed but you must do what is best for you. Heather
ReplyDeleteThank you for letting your readers know. I will miss you but at least am not left wondering what’s happened as could have been the case. All the best for the many years to come. Margaret (New Zealand)
ReplyDeleteOh good heavens Sue, you will be so very missed. Please take care of you and enjoy every minute of everything you do from this time onwards. As a fellow Aries, follow your heart 🙏😘. Jan in Castle Gresley
ReplyDeleteWill miss your blog as I’ve been reading your blog for years since before your move to Wales but you must do what feels right for you. Take care, sending hugs.
ReplyDeleteYou will be missed. Take care.
ReplyDeleteAs others have said. You will be missed.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
This makes me sad. I would like to thank you for all the reading pleasure you have given me. So I wish you much happiness going forward. Jo is the US.
ReplyDeleteI will miss your posts and the peek into a life very different from mine. Thank you for many hours of pleasant and interesting reading. Best wishes for you and your family.
ReplyDeleteHilde in Germany
I rarely comment but I wanted you to know how much I've enjoyed reading your blogs over the years and of course meeting you, Alan and the doggy girls at the boot sales in Wales. If I want your 'company' I can go back to re-read all of your adventures and yes, I'm one of those who visits your blog everyday to read the updated blogs on your blog list, it's handy to have so that's another reason to appreciate you keeping the blogs online. Take care and wishing you happiness and contentment in the future, Gill (and Mike)
ReplyDeleteThank you for letting us know you are going. I have enjoyed your blogs and I will miss them but I understand that they had become a chore to you. Thanks for the pleasure you have given me and all your friends(readers).
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your blogs and for letting us into your life. Needless to say you will be very much missed. I do however understand and would heartily endorse your reasons. There are a lot of blogs out there that have turned into daily repetitions of what they eat, how they exercise, what they buy - so much money being spent! - and not much else. I hasten to add Sue that yours was never like this, they were just a joy to read. Very good wishes to you and Alan and your lovely animals. Take care and enjoy the freedom.
ReplyDeleteThank you Sue for the many happy years of reading your blog, I live in wales not far from your old smallholding so really enjoyed reading about your life there, as I said I have read your blog for years and I will miss you dearly. (sandy)
ReplyDeleteI completely understand, but will miss your posts, especially the challenges. Thank you for all the posts over the years! Enjoy your freedom. Best wishes from the Netherlands, Ellen
ReplyDeleteYou will be missed very much by everyone, but as others have said I totally understand your need to stop blogging. I will continue to wave as we pass on the M6 occasionally and who knows we may bump into you if we go to the Booths store in Garstang. Wishing you, Alan and the doggies the best of health in the future and here's to your new blog free life. x
ReplyDeleteThe comment above was from me by the way at 'wherethejourneytakesme2.blog' (Google playing up again and publishing anonymously!).
ReplyDeleteThank you for all your years of musings, I will miss you and also hearing about your dear doggies, may you and Alan have a long and healthy retirement.
ReplyDeleteI totally get it, Sue. We live in a world where we tend to think of our audience way too much. You will be missed, but I suspect you will enjoy your mental freedom. God bless you and take care.
ReplyDeleteSo very very sorry - you are my favourite blogger - hope it has nothing to do with a certain blogger attacking you and accusing you of showing your true colours. I have always enjoyed your all of your blogs. You will be missed. Fiona x
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely NOTHING to do with that. I have always shown my true colours and spoke my mind ... and indeed she knows that, but she decided to throw a hissy fit anyway. I have clearly and concisely given my reasons for stopping blogging on both this and the last post. There is no other reason.
Deleteyou have always been the first blog i look at i don't usually comment but going to miss you good luck to you and yours carol
ReplyDeleteYou will be HUGELY missed but I completely get the "what and why". You are a very special lady and I still hope that one day we will manage to have that coffee. 😘
ReplyDeleteI remember once I shut down my Bag End blog finding so much space and mental freedom when I no longer felt as if I was being "watched".
Enjoy yourself, pop in to see what the rest of us are doing as and when you want, and above all have a wonderful life, xxxxx
I too will miss you and have been reading a long time although only commenting now and again. I have especially enjoyed your challenges. I totally understand the freedom though that will come from not having to document everything. I wish you all the best for the future and thank you for all the posts you have written and for letting us know.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for my cook book that I won for being number one and thank you to Alan too. You have been so kind in your replies to some of my comments which I have really appreciated ,you will be missed but it's time to live your lives for you , Alan and your furry friends ,you have shared your life with us for a long time , thank you for you entertainment and inspiration and I wish you a happy and healthy life with all you wish for and deserve, you are a lovely lady. Fondest wishes , Chrissie.x
ReplyDeleteBest of luck.
ReplyDeleteSorry to see you go Sue. Thanks for all the valuable posts and all the very best for the future.
ReplyDeleteI am glad that I got to 'meet' you. Fly free!
ReplyDeleteSorry to see your blog come to an end. But we all have to do what is best for us. I came late to your blog but have enjoyed reading. All the best for your future doing and enjoying whatever you want. Hugs to you and your fur babies.
ReplyDeleteWendy C- Bribie Is, Oz
Sorry to see you go Sue as I have been a follower for a few years especially when you had the smallholding in Wales as me and hubby have allotment plots that we grow our own fruit and veg on so it was always good to see what you were growing throughout the year.All the very best to you and your family and fur babies and hope you enjoy your new found freedom to do exactly what you want when you want.Wendy from the house on top of a hill.
ReplyDeleteWishing you & yours the very, very best! Will miss reading your blog and hearing about your life, especially the antics of Suky, Mavis & Ginger.
ReplyDeleteI have been reading for several years and I will miss your writing, but totally understand a desire for a new direction
ReplyDeleteDear Sue, Alan, Suky, Mavis and Ginger♥ I will miss you all so much:( Sue, I've been following you for many moons now and have absolutely loved all of your blogs. I take my hat off to you, how you have managed to blog for so many years is amazing:) I have learnt so much from you over the years, had so many laughs reading your blogs as well as touching posts where I have shed a few tears. You will be missed by so many but at the end of the day you have to do what is right for you, as we all know time is precious. I'm send lots of love, happiness, laughter and joy to you all in the years ahead♥ Linda in Oz xoxo
ReplyDeleteOh Dear - Of course you must do what feels best for you, but I will miss you, and your gorgeous four legged friends, and the times with Alan you share with us. May the times ahead be full of happy times, interesting new adventures and good health. thank you for your generosity.
ReplyDeleteThank you for many years of interesting reading. Hopefully we will still see you pop in to comment on blogs you read?
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your blogs, I have enjoyed them so much over the years. They've always been interesting, enjoyable, informative and thoughtful - thanks for leaving them up for us to dip into. You will be very much missed but I completely understand your reasons for stopping. I wish you nothing but the very best for the future - enjoy your freedom.
ReplyDeleteSorry to see you go Sue take care of yourselves.
ReplyDeleteOh I will miss reading your blog. Your positivity and optimism are a joy to behold. Sending you all good wishes for a happy future. Carole R.
ReplyDeleteSo sorry you are leaving the blogging world I enjoyed reading you writings. Jane
ReplyDeleteI can understand wanting to find the freedom that comes from not having to blog! Enjoy it!x
ReplyDeleteI will miss reading your posts but fully understand that your life has moved on. Thank you for all of your posts over such a long time. Cheers yo Alan, Mavis, Suky and Ginger.
ReplyDeleteI felt like I was just really getting to know you but like the rest of your readers, I respect your decision and you must do what is right for you. Please know that you will be missed. Best Wishes from Nanny Anny in Canada.
ReplyDeleteAnd very much wishing you the same. I’m so happy for you that you are finding some of the peace and enjoyment you were looking for. Remember always that you are worth it and deserve your own voice and opinions and there will always be people out here who do care. I also appreciate you leaving up your older blogs as I’ve only discovered you in the past several months after losing my DH. You have been a good companion. Wishes and prayers for your happiness and health as you move forward on your journey.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all these comments, on this my final post. They, and all the comments over the years that I posted are very appreciated. Sending all my love and positive vibes for a happy future for all my readers past and present. xx
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