The general bloggers’ view is honesty above all. You may have said something that turned out to be catastrophically wrong - fine. You admit this in a later post. You may have posted something deeply embarrassing - fine. You take the response on the chin and hopefully your honesty and grovelling wins out. Your blog ends up being something quite different from the way it started - fine. Your archives show the ‘journey’ (shudder).
I usually share this view. However, I am about to (or have already, depending on when you read this) delete some few posts from my public archive. Given that this is something I would normally sneer at, I thought a brief excuse-me might be in order. I can’t fully explain the reasons why, although they may become apparent shortly, but it is partly self-preservation. Nobody will miss the posts much or at all, they are generally the personal ones. A view naughty words may or may not go as well, depending on how bowdlerising I feel at the time. My apologies for any broken links to those kind enough to link.
I have also reached a small decision, a decisonette if you will, on the future of the blog. Call it weariness, call it lack of time, call it a failure of inspiration and enthusiasm, but I’m just not feeling the joy. So updates on this blog will be pretty much exclusively housing law or legal aid related from here on in and therefore intermittent, depending on what comes up.
The blog has been going for 18 months and 258 posts, (which is 14.333 often lengthy posts a month. No wonder the novel never got written). It is time to cut back and concentrate on where I can hopefully be useful. Still, if the mood takes me…
I’m sorry to hear this NL; your blog is both informative and entertaining, but I fully understand the need to preserve your marbles and your proper ID in the face of those who may be termed internet trolls.
I hope though, in the new year you will get your second blogging wind and come back as the force majeure for land lord and tenant law that we all know you to be!!
Hi Minx,
Luckily, it is not internet trolls bothering me at all. Some things currenty afoot made me look at possible ID giveaways with a newly sharpened eye is all. These things may or may not become clear to others shortly.
Definitely lacking wind at the moment, though.
ID protection is always a concern; its not so important for me as for you, I’d guess, but when someone contacted me recently believing they knew my true ID ( which, mercifully, they didn’t) it does rather give you the creeps that such a giveaway is even possible….
Sympathies !!!