So the other day I received an email from WordPress informing me that I had registered with them four years ago.
Shit, I thought, that seems a long time, four years. No way! I looked and am only just coming up to my 150th post. What the fuck have I been doing all this time? 150 posts in four years. That is less than 40 a year on average. Yes, I am quite sure most of you could have done that insanely, complex piece of mathematics yourself, but I have been used to living in a nanny state, where spoon feeding everyone has become the norm. So why so long, and why so few posts? When you take into account that nigh on 130 of those posts have been made this year, you may ask yourself why I even had a blog in those days. You and me both, believe me.
This blog was started, in the main, as a vehicle for work. My original intent was to use it to write about current hot topics in environmental chemistry and analysis. This would then be used to drive traffic to the company website, in much the same way I envisaged twitter working for us. That turned out to be so boring and uninspiring that I almost never posted, and certainly not on topic. Over time, the blog morphed to become a little more personal and then I made one of the most important decisions of my life. That decision was to start to blog on a more regular basis, and on something I actually cared about, books and literature, although as you all know, I am also partial to the occasional lewd comment.
It has been amazing having somewhere to share my thoughts regarding the things that I am passionate about. Literature, books, and reading, in particular. Having somewhere that there are other people willing, and able, to discuss those passions has been so immensely rewarding.
I have met many wonderful people here since making this change and I would like to thank everyone that has made blogging such an enjoyable experience. I hope that readers of this blog occasionally find some value in my posts. Of course, I never expected to find love through blogging, but that happened too. Like I said, it was a pivotal moment in my life, when I started blogging again, although I didn’t know this at the time.
So here is to another four years. Who knows what I will be doing with this blog then, or indeed if it will even exist. Thank you once again, to one and all, for being part of my extremely enjoyable WordPress experience.
Comments, especially lewd ones, (see the tagline above), are appreciated, as always.
I think I´ve been around app the same time. I love blogging to make money!
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Here’s to another 4 years and hoping you can break 200 posts by then. Start taking bets people!
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Thanks Charles. Hopefully I will break the 200 post mark in the next four years. I’ll put $100 on doing it by the end of this year. What odds are you going to give me?
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2 to 7? I have the gambling knowledge of a 4-year-old.
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My gambling knowledge is not great either, but I think that means if I win the bet you pay me $350 so I’ll take those odds 😉
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It will have to be Monopoly money.
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That sounds perfectly acceptable, Charles.
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Great. Now I need to buy a Monopoly set. Harry Potter or Star Wars?
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That sounds like you are throwing the towel in already Charles. Let’s see. I may lose the bet and there is no point investing in the Monopoly game if you don’t need to. However, I am easy, I like Harry Potter and Star Wars.
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Jersey Shore it is! Oh and getting Ionia to write your posts doesn’t count.
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No, but surely reblogs do. Shit, they better do, that was my secret weapon.
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We’ll grade those on quality.
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Julian,
We have all enjoyed you and your erudite postings. It is nice that you found love and life in the endeavor . I hope for another four years as well. I really can’t think of a lewd comment, but hope when I do I can get back to you on that. 😎
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Thanks a lot John. It has been fun, and you have been a big part of that. You are always welcome back with lewd comments, and failing that, I am always pleased to see you and talk to you in non lewd ways
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Aw…thanks.
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Don’t worry John…I got this one. You can always talk dirty to me, baby.
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You know I don’t just ‘talk’ dirty to you, my love
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Dog house for you
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Is that what we are calling it now?
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Kit kat ranch was already taken
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Hello Kitty!
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*snort
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Come on, you don’t usually ‘snort’
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Julian,
That’s so interesting because my blog actually started from just something to learn some programming but eventually morphed into… I don’t know… something else though. Same thing, I think the first year I had maybe 10 posts. Now though… I have um over 400 since February, lol. I think maybe I went a little nuts.
Glad to see the transition is working for you and hope to read more of your work (even if it might be a bit lewd 😉 )
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Thanks Bradley. It is odd isn’t it, how the original intent and what prompted us to set up our blogs has evolved over time turning them into something probably completely unrecognisable now. I would imagine that it is like that with many people though.
I am so glad that you are interested in reading more, and you can be sure that there will definitely be a certain degree of lewdness involved.
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I’ve had a similar journey. I started my blog in 2007 to try and present myself as a freelance editor. That didn’t go anywhere, I stopped posting for about 3 years, and when I came back … Boom! It seemed like overnight I amassed a wonderful group of new friends (your love and you being part of that group). Now I’m blogging for the pure pleasure of it, to enjoy reading and writing about reading and writing. And, of course, the occasional lewd comment ;). Here’s to you blogging for many more years to come!
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Absolutely. It is also nice to hear that a number of other people have had similar journeys with their blogs evolving into something different from the original intent. I think it just needs the right people to include you as part of things, and it makes all the difference. I love that phrase ‘to enjoy reading and writing about reading and writing’.
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I am going to try to make this as non lewd as possible. I began my blog with the intent of attracting a ridiculously intelligent environmental chemist with a fucking English “accent” and a love for swearing and inappropriate sexually charged banter in public forums. What I ended up with was a blog that attracted a ridiculously intelligent and charming environmental chemist with a fucking English “accent” and a love for swearing and inappropriate sexually charged banter in public forums.
wait…something about books.
Fuck it.
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So your blog has actually achieved its goal. That is fucking brilliant. I did hear talk that the books were because he had to like books too. From what I hear, he does have a bit of a thing for them, and for you too. Just remember to turn the fucking page and he will find the bookmark.
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*princess* you turn the page. I just used the books to lure you into my sweet lair. Worked like a charm.
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I see, and now you have me, your sweet layer, what are you going to do with me I wonder
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Lets try this again. I said I want you.
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You have me, whenever you want me. I have been attracted to your sweet lair, I am your sweet layer.
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I like it. It does not appear comments are working from my phone.
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That’s shitty.
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It really is. oh well, opportunity for the phone to charge.
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I suppose so, although there appears to be some electrical charge flying around here too
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My computer keeps freezing. Scaring me.
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It is the technology gods fucking us, as usual.
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This will matter much more when I can no longer reach you
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That is true. Imagine if we were separated by that great toilet bowl of an ocean right now
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Then I’d be really pissed
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Me too. Thank fuck that isn’t the case.
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Hey…come hither
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I will come hither and thither for you, any time, any where, any place, always.
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We should go to that bookstore at tahoe tomorrow.
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We certainly should. Sit outside with a coffee, after browsing, then maybe a walk by the shore.
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That would be lovely.
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It will be. I will just have to remember to leave the credit card at home this time and only take some cash.
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Good plan. I have so little room.
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I know. We need a separate house for the books, I think
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I believe so. A big house.
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In truth we need a larger house for the books, than for the six of us.
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This is very true. Although the books make great sound barriers.
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Good point. A wall of books between our room and the kids, perfect sound proofing.
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Shall we test this?
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Okay. Let’s start building.
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Hand me that hard on..I mean hardcover
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Here, put it in that slot right there
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Perfect!
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It fits like a glove, slid in there perfectly
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You are a lewd Englishman…has anyone told you?
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I believe that you may have mentioned in the throes of…
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Reading a book?
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Well we are both passionate about that too
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Wasn’t it the kama something or other?
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I believe it was. Some Indian book, I think
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I wonder what position that will fit in this stack
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Row 69, I think
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Right between gutter books and our porn collection?
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That’s it, just above the smut, below the erotica
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Lift me a little
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Here, sit on this. It will support you.
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I am not sitting on that copy of ever hard. It is priceless.
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Deny yourself then.
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I’d rather sit on your…
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John Thomas? Who’s he when he’s at home?
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A nob, I hear.
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Apparently so. A right dickhead.
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Hey guess what?
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What?
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I.F.L.U!!!!
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As I do you, but also I.L.F.U!!!!
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Lol! I.w.t.f.y.r.n.
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That would b.v.f.g
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Wouldn’t it? I.w.y.c.s.b.
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and you shall have w.y.w
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I.w.y.
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And I.w.y.s.m
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M.t.a.&.f.e.
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You are so much better at the initials game than me, my love 🙂
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Okay I shall stop
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I like it, I just cannot understand some of them, and I so very much want to.
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So not concern yourself with such idle things. Come here:) 💋
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Where? Oh, right there, I see.
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So now that you’re over here..
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What shall I do? Perhaps I should start by taking you in my arms and kissing you. Or is that too forward?
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Why, Englishman…it’s about time you noticed that I keep coming back to your blog for a reason.
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I always notice you, my love.
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I’m here to tell you the truth. I can’t hide it anymore. I love thee as the parched earth loves thy summer rain.
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Then you feel the same way that I do. I love you with all of my heart.
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Then I am one hell of a lucky woman.
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I think that we are both very lucky, to have found each other.
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Aye, you are the most incredible luck I’ve ever had.
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As you are mine. The most important thing in my life.
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Goldfish!
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I goldfish you.
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Double that 🐠🐠
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I second that
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Behind every silver lining – there is a dark cloud!!
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I agree, but the important part here is ‘behind’
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Or the ‘end’ perhaps??
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Waiter! Please?! I’ll have what they are having 🙂
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You are always welcome. Pull up a chair and have a bite. ‘Garcon! Another one of these for the lady, please’
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Garcon? Yes please! I will have one of those also!. A large one, lean, thick, not quite pink, medium well, and yes Waiter, a chair,and a bite would be nice., and a room, if you have one, and don’t forget to cuff him to the bed.
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I came here to say congrats on four years of blogging and {{{{fanning myself}}}}} whew! Anyway, ahem, I also wanted to congratulate you on finding love. Although I only know Ionia (and you) through the blogosphere, she is quite a rare jewel. I’m sure that unexpected part of your blogging journey is something you will always treasure :-)
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Thank you so much for your support. I agree that she is certainly a rare jewel, and one that I will always treasure. I guess my blogging journey has been kind of like following a treasure map, with the ultimate prize at the end, which I have finally located.
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