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So I’ve
decided to blog. There are reasons – not self-
promotion as you may imagine – but following months of
nagging from colleagues who seem to think I have plenty
to say. But does anyone actually want to hear it? Well
anyway, here it is. Welcome! Hmmm, so where do I
start? And where do I put it? On my website?
Clearly I have, but not ideal… there’s no point writing
about business issues if it’s only going to be read by
Gill and maybe David. Who else exactly would be
interested enough to read 500 words about my day? So,
as you can see, I’m assuming anyone still reading at
this point knows my people, knows all the stuff. I
don’t need to disguise anyone, use pseudonyms or explain
who is what. Just take it if they’re here, they’re
important. Or at least weird enough for a mention. On
Facebook? No… never seen blogging there.
Although Facebook friends tell me I’m funny… I don’t see
it, never thought of myself as amusing – apart from on
the pink wine days, obviously!! I do make myself laugh
but surely that’s a bit odd and not what I’d want to be
telling the world. Steven says I’ve got no sense of
humour and the rest of my family just think I’m a bit
strange - but in the best possible way, apparently. I
don’t yet have a big enough audience on Twitter
to make it valuable so I simply steal snippets from
other, more eloquent tweeters (dutifully acknowledged,
of course). And LinkedIn just seems an excellent
way to stalk people I fancied at work in years gone by.
And then the
issue of what to blog about? A lot of what happens in
my life is too bizarre to be believable. Unfabricated,
unadulterated madness that really does happen. Shall I
risk telling you about it? Do my views count? Friends
don’t like it when my opinionated side shows its face –
those rants tend to be on social issues and women
things, occasionally political, rarely football-related
and sometimes cultural – or lack of. I’m not a slave to
fashion and my eclectic music taste confuses many. My
friends know what pisses me off (can you say that in a
www blog?) but aren’t blogs meant to be upbeat? I can
tell you about my life on a daily basis – although it’s
hardly glamorous (although I have met many, many famous
people, and I can tell some superb stories there – some
totally true, selected ones rehashed a bit, and a few
made up as I go along…). So tell me what you want to
know: What I do apart from sleeping and watching hours
of reruns of Frasier and West Wing, laptop on, well,
lap? The advice I give to people when we’re in the
oxygen tank? Expanded versions of the nonsense I put on
Facebook? How I can now manage to go out for lunch
without my stockings falling down? It’s all progress.
It’s my life – and, as John Lennon said, life is just
what happens to us while we’re busy making other plans.
Email me at
Ren@imaginativetraining.com and tell me what you’d
like to know. Or @WeekendWitch. I’ll try to
oblige…
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