Take a big breath and blowwww.Phooooooo.
There. That should have shifted the dust that's settled on this blog. Thank you.
I read something the other week which said of the fifty billion (or thereabouts) blogs worldwide, forty billion of them (or thereabouts) are now dormant. Forgotten, abandoned and quietly expiring on the edge of the internet highways. Forty billion stories with no endings.
Mine is in danger of becoming one of them. But when the time comes, I'll write The End or delete it. Truth is, I've not had much to do with the internet at all recently. Apart from browsing a bit, it's been like going back to the seventies but without the Vesta curries or KerKnockers . The last few weeks have been about family hoo-haas, the weather, work and writing. Much like you really.
The other thing is concentration. Since I stopped smoking back in July, concentration has been a bit hit and miss. I used to be able to write/read for long periods of time, popping out for the odd puff now and then. But no longer. I've learnt not to smoke but I still haven't learnt how to be a non smoker. It'll come.
Peggy on the other hand has no problem with concentration. She can stare at her squeaky toy (kept up out of her reach) for hours, no problem. Teabag has better things to do with her time.
Very sensible too.
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I think I take more after Teabag. If I didn't smoke, I would probably never wake up again.
Yup, I'm with Teabag too.
Very lovely it is to see you back here but it's got to be fun, hasn't it?
Vesta curries! That takes me back...
Ooh, how lovely to see you here! I re-started my blog the other week, maybe tis the season.
Short bursts of concentration are better than none! One huge achievement at a time. Habits are tricky. Took me about a year to get used to not eating anything between meals (weird sugar crash dizzy spells otherwise). I didn't know what to do with myself at 11am!
Aw, Lane! Good to see you, dear heart. JJ's right - it has got to be fun. Hope you get some time to yourself with all the family stuff and well done for not smoking - your lungs will thank you.
Damn it, your dogs are cute!
Ex smoker also. Why did we d0 it!
Hi Lane! No stop by here is wasted so long as there are photos of my two fav girlfriends, Peggy F and Teas. Peggy has that border collie stare going on, doesn't she? And Teas coserving energy, how sensible.
I read that stuff about blogs fizzling out and feel sad also. Part of it is all the other ways to connect that doesn't demand quite as much out of you as writing a decent post. And then there's the whole issue of making the daily living hoo haas interesting enough that people will want to read. I've kept on since May 2007, but there are definitely times when there's nothing to report.
Anyway, it's great to hear from you. xoxos for the furgirls from me and Willie.
Maybe we should have a worldwide "deleting" day and watch all the bright blog bubbles burst. Blinkin' 'eck ;-)
Hmmm, I wonder if all the words typed were wasted? Ahh, look on the bright side, if we get blog withdrawal symptons we can always take up twittering! :O
Lane, I hope you stick around :-)
TFx
Oh I just love Peggy's top knot. Why is her toy out of reach? Because it drives you mad or is it at that dangerous stage of losing rubbery bits down her throat.
Well done on not smoking - it does get easier, promise.
Missed you
x
Teabag looks so happy in that photo. Bless her heart.
Lovely to see you *waves* and glad to hear you've been writing.
Hello there, good to see you.
Love the photos, they look so sweet as always.
I remember those clacker things. I used to love mine until they banned them from our school.
Good to see you here, Lane x
But I LOVE your blog, Lane! Don't be thinking of ending it. That wouldn't be fair. X
Lovely to hear from you again, Lane - you are not, repeat not, ever to write the End on this blog! I know what you mean about concentration, though - maybe it's 2010 but one and a half months in I don't feel I've got a grip on it at all. As for concentration-aids, I've never smoked, unless you count a few weeks of non-inhalation of Consulates when I was first at university, trying desperately to look cool. But I do need a sugar rush every couple of hours or I come over all faint, fuzzy and irritable. Not good. Keep writing the blog, Lane - I love your writing. xx
Jeeze I know what you mean. When you lose the muse for the blog it is so hard to get back into it. It's like not talking to a friend for a while if you had a spat, the longer you leave it to talk the harder it becomes. A break is a good thing but it is nice to see you back with the 'girls' on show. Always a treat Lane - even if you posted about a bus timetable I read you, you have great style!
Phew, thought you'd disappeared off the face of the earth altogether. ;)
Love, love, love the photo of Teabag! That's what I want to do tomorrow (too late for today), curl up on the guest bed in the afternoon sun and nap. With no interruptions. From ANYbody!!!
Forty million defunct blogs! Blimey, that's almost as many as there are defunct groups on faceache.
You are hereby forbidden to end this blog. I see no problem with blogs lying dormant for a while. We all know when people have something to say again, due to the power of RSS feeds (or Google Reader, or whatever).
Talking of dusty blogs, I know one particular one that needs a good dusting off...
The Green Stone Woman - I think I take after Teabag too:-)
JJ - Yep, fun. When it's a chore it's time to stop. But it's not yet.
Dumdad - They all had sultanas in them if I remember rightly.
Denise - ah the snacking. That's a habit which I can live with at the moment. My willpower is depleted:-)
Chrish - They weren't cute on their walk today, but we won't spoil the illusion....:-)
I hear you've been a travelling. Will come see.
Grumpy Old Ken - I know. I won't pretend I don't miss it but all for the good, I suppose.
Faye - I think that's it Faye. It's not just having something to report, but having the energy to report it. Sometimes it's there and sometimes not. I suppose it's all ebbs and flows, which is pretty natural really.
Love to Master Wills too:-)
TF - That's quite a 'blog bubble bursting' image you've concocted there. All those words just being popped:-)
French Fancy - Both actually. She loves Squeaky so much that she would squeak every waking moment. But as much as she loves them, she rips them - a choking waiting to happen. Hence the 'supervised' play:-)
And thank you too.
helenH - A bit of sun and a cushion and she's in dreamy heaven:-)
Queenie - *waves* back. Thank you:-)
Debs - I remember they gave you horribly bruised wrists. They certainly wouldn't be allowed today.
Amanda - thanks m'dear
Nik - ok nik. Message received:-) And jolly big congratulations once again on your news.
Lorna F - ah ok, I won't. Peg and Teas would probably miss the exposure anyway:-)
I get that faint fuzzy thing too. It's a good excuse to carry fudge in every coat pocket/bag etc. If I was rich it would be Lindor of course:-)
MOB - Thank you, that's kind. Yes, it gets harder the longer the gap, purely beause it loses its familiarity I think.
I'm glad to see that you're back too.
Babaloo - ooh I'd like to do that too. Can't see it happening though. But at the weekend ...:-)
I think the time will have to come when the world holds a website amnesty - like an arms amnesty - when every member of society has a duty to go online and delete all the dead blogs & websites that they once set up and left to sit there unused forever. Just think of all the server capacity that would save.
Aww... nice to see you.
I read this the minute you posted earlier today and would've been the first to comment (a first for me to be first to do anything and once again - a mighty fail)but the link to the Clackers thing had me idling away about three hours reliving my seventies youth on the wonderful website it linked to - v. good research currently - thanks for that! Welcome back x
I'm a Teabag kinda gal myself.
Smoked for three days back in 1988 and hated the taste so much I quit before I could finish the pack. So much for my fantasy of looking sexy and mysterious behind a curtain of smoke. *cough, cough*
Quite a few of my buddies are hardly blogging these days and I've cut back drastically as well. Seems the blog phenomenon is in decline. It was great while it lasted, though. Especially yours. :)
Tell Green Stone Woman (first commenter) that if she keeps on smoking, she's likely to get the same result.
Anywho - I'm with Teabag, except I require large bowls of popcorn with grated cheese on top and a stack of most excellent movies.
Well, no one can moan if you're writing instead of blogging. Sometimes it's good to be a little bit quiet. I do, of course, much prefer it when you're a little bit noisy :0)
X
Chewing gum, Lane.
From an ex-forty a day girl. Gave up 25 years ago but one puff and I'd be back there.
Lovely to see you back - and I just adore the pics.
I seem to have unconsciously cut right back on blogging. As for concentration - I'm a waste of space right now. I smoke, I give myself loads of sugar ... not sure what I'm doing wrong.
Congrats on kicking the evil weed!
Glad to see you around and about.
I sympathise Lane - good to see you back but it took me along time to be a non-smoker. Good for you though - keep at it!
Oh God. I SO know what you mean about the concentration/nipping out for a fag just to think/be/stop. When writing, the thinking I do while sitting on the bench outside always produces the best ideas and dialogue for my characters. One thing I would say though, I when I gave up for three years, I didn't feel bereaft after a while. Almost forgot that I used to smoke (and I am a serious smoker). So stay on it - you can do it.
Great to see you back, Lane.
Lovely piccies
And well done on the no smoking. Half a day is the longest I managed except for the 3 times I was pregnant. Should I be glad or sorry I'm too old for that now.
xxPat
Glad to see you back. Your dogs do have a tough life don't they? Have you sorted out your boil wash problem!!!!
You may not blog very often but you have an enviable comment count!
I wish you hadn't brought back memories of Vesta curries - I thought they were safely forgotten.
Would miss you something dreadful if you deleted the blog! Glad to hear you've been writing and have managed to stick with the not smoking. Hang in there.
Think I should follow Teabag's lead. *Yawns* :)
pssst, hey, Peg. We've got to use diversionary tactics here. Misty and I are practicing standing on each others' shoulders - then if you could just learn to spring up - use the chair for bounciness - and get on top of the two of us - you might just reach squeaky toy.
Forget Teas - she can be the lookout - if she ever wakes up that is.
xx
Teabag is definitely a sensible puppy!
So nice to see you about - and I know exactly what you mean about the lack of urge to blog, or the time. My poor blog's been limping along. Note to self: must get blogging act together!
I wish Teabag would teach me how to do that :( As for the learning how to 'be' a non smoker...well I've been quit for ten years now and I haven't mastered that part of it yet. x
I've just posted on the lack of concentration bit apres le smoking. It's not so much an inability to concentrate but a new found ability to concentrate on twenty things at one time, all of equal importance, all competing for your attention.
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