For the past 12-18 months, I have been told so often, that i need to enter the world of bloggers and blog-related ’stuff’.
Whilst accepting that some of the invitations of blogger friends have had their good points, there have been a few things that have habitually held me back from actually being a blogger myself.

1)   When in the name of goodness would I ever find the time. I mean, there is always something! Whether it be work, stuff in Church, praise band practices – the list can literally go on and on! And thats without even mentioning my wonderful girlfriend Julie – and NOTHING will eat into my ‘novia time’!

2)   A cursory audit of any talents that I have would show that writing would not be considered a strong point of mine. I can talk – and most of the time – make sense. Yet, the written word aint too hot.

3)   Do i really want to encourage the possibility of having an online ‘argument / debate’ on an issue / issues with some other anomyous blogger out there somewhere waiting for me to say something he / she does not agree with.

and finally….

4)   I have historically made fun of bloggers. There was a time when all things blog-related were enjoyed by a small minority of spotty kids with NHS glasses and a brylcreem-aided sideshade, or nerds as I used to know them as. Im not sure that i have ever accepted that blogging is now a past-time of many a normal, balanced adult! So i know, that if i finish this post and hit the ‘publish’ button – then i have joined ‘them’, and would be nothing short of a hypocrite if a continued to lovingly mock ‘them’.

…….So – putting all my apprehensions to one side – I am writing my first blog!

Here I am – Im Blogging!!

God help me – God help us all!!