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The re-launched blog!

I’ve been forced to re-consider my multi-platform blogging strategy! When I was working it was right to try and separate work and personal issues; I still firmly believe that context in blogging is of the highest importance. You believe you’re writing for a specific audience – they do not want to be distracted by what will seem to them obscure references to photography or holidays, if they’ve been drawn to a blog post on technology; they don’t want to really know about your family, or perhaps they might – if they are part of your family … and so on!

Blogger at work

The updated, re-launched blog tries to take account of this by having a ‘sticky’ post at the top of the front page – this post for instance – with all the other posts below and also being accessible from the pull-down menus above the graphic. These make use of ‘categories’ – so each post is allocated a category. Posts can also be accessed using the ‘tag cloud’ (in the sidebar), or from the list of ‘recent posts’. If you think this works, or doesn’t, please let me know. Thanks.

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To Speyside for the whisky and a walk or two

This trip was done in the autumn of 2011 in the company of my son. We planned to take-in a couple of walks in Speyside as well as visiting a few distilleries. We didn’t do too well on the former, but succeeded in the latter. The weather was rather wet and the only walks we managed were done in drizzle, low cloud, driving wind or a combination of the above!

To Speyside and back to Lancashire at EveryTrail

Two of the walks are shown below
“The Dramble” at EveryTrail

and Beside the Spey in the wet at EveryTrail
, a third walk on a really unpleasant day up Cairngorm was abandoned because there was no fun in it at all, and to proceed any further would have been foolish – even the cable car wasn’t running!

A secondary, and to me as important, outcome of the trip was that I was able to look up old university friends in Stirling, Lancaster and Scarisbrick. Great fun!