A couple of you noticed a few differences in the blog the other day.
I've been having a bit of a re-think, a re-jig and generally tidying up the right-hand sidebar. It's nice to keep things the same but it's also nice to have a bit of a tidy up every now and then.
I changed the blog header picture a few weeks ago after our little narrowboat holiday and with my love of canal bridges coming to the fore I just had to have one headlining my blog for a while. I just love old stone bridges and it's so lovely that I live so close to so many of them, a five minute walk in either direction and I see three of them, a couple minutes further and there are more.
Well anyway ... stop rambling woman, stop rambling ... after changing the header I thought I would look at other aspects of the blog that needed updating. It's a good job I did, a few of the blogs on my sidebar Blog List are just no more. I do read some blogs regularly and comment most times I visit, some I just visit and quietly slip away and some I hadn't been over to for quite a while ... and some of them had gone. How long have you been gone I wondered and pulled my sad face 😞
So I knocked them off, I also knocked off a couple that have just turned into advertising opportunities, I don't need to be sold things, kept up to date with things yes, sold things, no thank you. And when escaping the flashing adverts take up more time than reading a post does it gets to a point where I say 'no thank you' ... and quietly leave.
I'm currently working my way through my YouTube list of subscriptions too and deleting most of them. One of my ex-favourite ones, a proper career YouTuber is now just a walking advert and it seems her only content is showing what she eats, what she wears and if I have to fast forward through her showing us how she washes and curls her hair once more I will literally go and shave it all off for her. Then when she advertised for an 'editor and content creator' for her channel it was just too much. Her career is 'content creator' if she is going to pay someone to do that for her and just carry on washing her hair live on camera ... well I have no words!!
Anyway I have to stop waffling and sounding like Victor Meldrew and get back to my neatening up of my own blog ... or maybe should I pay someone to do it for me?
I did find something on my Blog List that I thought I had already deleted and I was really pleased to find it there. Back in December of 2020 I started a blog called A Year of Modern Rationing and I was all geared up to follow it through in the New Year, and then Covid. lockdown and life threw me a curveball and it was shelved as quickly as it was begun.
Maybe it's something for me to think about once again. What better way to keep food and fuel costs down than to go back to rationing, and non-wartime rationing is a lot safer than wartime rationing.
Something for me to think about for sure. Is anyone else thinking of something like this or similar for the near future?
Sue xx
