When I was a little younger I watched a fair amount of American television and was always fascinated with their ability to make a show last an entire season, e.g. twenty or so episodes shown weekly between the autumn of year one and the spring of year two. As opposed to the BBC model of six episodes a year. Which is fine with some of the garbage that comes out but when a really good programme is developed, six half hour episodes can hardly do it justice. The even stranger thing is that we used to do things the American way. Most classic British TV series from the 60s were made in the 20-30 episodes a year format (The Avengers, The Saint, Thunderbirds etc).
As luck would have it I started blogging in autumn 2009 and so I have likened my blogging experience up to now as a season, with 27 blogs. Unlike television however my blogs "aired" in a completely random fashion after a few weeks. At the start I did try and get them out every five days; this lasted all of two weeks! Since then sometimes I've gone an entire month without blogging then published three in one night.
When I first was granted my blogging powers, I paced up and down trying to think of something worthy. I could go two ways: comment on a recent development in the world or discuss something relatively trivial. That first day I went for events and talked about the Olympics going to Brazil. Since then I've talked about such oddities as road names, the lottery and such, tried to cover slightly more important ground including the general election, a joke blog on April Fools' Day which a few fell for and blogs commemorating important dates in our calendar: Remembrance Day, D-Day, and an equinox and a solstice.
I'm pretty happy with my output- some I would not have written in hindsight, others I'm mildly proud of. I have however made the unfortunate decision of beginning continuing blogs which I have left uncompleted, as you can see by the number of "part 1's" in the list below. I do hope to complete these in season 2.
That's all I really have to say. Just to prove how peculiar I am here is a list of my 'blogisodes' with their publishing date. See ya soon.
1) An Olympic Day, 2/10/2009
2) The Saint Comes to Chalfont, 7/10/2009
3) The history of Wycombe, part I, 12/10/2009
4) Oliver Newbury presents... A Raving Rhapsody, 17/10/2009
5) Transport in Wycombe, 22/10/2009
6) Turn! Turn! Turn!, 7/11/2009
7) The National Trust in Bucks, 5/12/2009
8) The Tragedy of Wycombe Summit, 2/1/2010
9) Creativity in road names, 4/2/2010
10) Lottery Mania, 13/2/2010
11) The railway with no station, 11/3/2010
12) Eden’s second birthday, 11/3/2010
13) Two unfortunate closures, 11/3/2010
14) Happy Vernal Equinox, 21/3/2010
15) Wycombe Air Park to become London Airport?, 1/4/2010
16) Visiting local attractions- part 1, 6/4/2010
17) Why do libraries close on Monday’s?, 26/4/2010
18) Please vote. Go on. Please, 6/5/2010
19) It is D-Day today, isn’t it?, 6/6/2010
20) I thought Justin Bieber was a woman... 14/6/2010
21) Visiting local attractions- part 2, 17/6/2010
22) Sunrise, Sunset... the furthest apart they ever were, 21/6/2010
23) Exploring north Buckinghamshire- part 1, 25/7/2010
24) Cakes, farmers and sushi. All at Eden, 29/7/2010
25) Exploring north Buckinghamshire- part 2, 5/8/2010
26) I don't really know anyone called Rhonda, 18/9/2010
27) Thoughts, 18/9/2010
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