I have an old friend arriving tomorrow. From Britain.
I will go and meet her at the airport. I love doing that!
What a good excuse to really clean the house and to delve into some of my boxes which are still stored in a dusty abandoned room along with my furniture and paintings.
There’s not much room here for my stuff you see!
But as I prepare her bedroom I see it needs some sculptures and some bits and bobs to make it more homely. My home-ly!
I love preparing a bedroom for a loved guest. Choosing books for the bedside table as my own aunts used to do when one of us arrived to stay in their cottage overlooking the water in Tighnabruich
I am so excited it is worrying – I hope I don’t drown her in a flood of words and emotions.
Or suck out all her juices in the first five minutes and leave her exhausted and desi-kated!
Do you think perhaps I need more friends here and something more resembling a social life?
Oh Kate, maybe she is just waiting for you to suck her dry! And when I first read this piece I read, “bits and boobs” and then thought, “huh?” and went back and re-read it! I guess I am safe writing naughty things since NOBODY else is reading you or else they would leave a comment, right? Love these bits and bobs, by the way, will you bring them out when I come to visit?
Are those your sculptures???????
One of the things that I found with blogging, that I found weird and slightly annoying, is that my intended audience not only rarely commented, most of them don’t read the blog. The original idea was that I would write it so I didn’t have to try and fill people in in email form about what we were up to, which made me stop even READING emails it was so awful. But most of my readers are not friends, that’s not true, but they aren’t the friends I had before I started blogging, the ones we were leaving behind. My immediate family mostly reads, though they usually comment via email, rarely.
For me, the big upside from this is that if someone sends me an email asking me to summarise my life for them, I send them to the blog. I’ve met cool people and gotten interaction I felt I needed, and I have created a journal for myself. I struggled with tone for a while, and came to the conclusion that it is ultimately for me, (sounds horrid) but I am not aiming at massive readership. And I like the discipline of writing every day.
It is weird though, isn’t it.
Hi Kim
Welcome to my bits and boobs! They will be all on display when you come.
You can say anything you want here – there is no censorship. Anything!! Please!!! Words!!!!!
(suck suck – ah the fresh blood. And it’s full moon)
Yes Oreneta it is weird. and I am feeling weird as I try to find out what I want from this blog. If lots of visitors and comments is what I want then I clearly am not doing it right. If I want to keep a journal then I have missed out A LOT!
If I want to pass the time doing something I enjoy, then yes it hits the spot.
Friends – a couple of real people I know do read and comment and THANK YOU – you know who you are.
New friends have arrived from the airwaves and that is one of the best things about the blog – that is the gift i wasn’t expecting. THANK YOU TOO!
Family – mmm – yes some read it and some communicate this in emails. I have no idea why they don’t comment – presumably they don’t know how much it makes me happy.
Old friends – not many read this nor do they email much so I assume I have been downgraded due to lack of physical presence and I just need to accept and move on. It seems to be something that happens when you move away.
I know some people who say they would never write on a public forum – I seem to know a lot of people like this judging from my FB responses!
Also perhaps there are some who just think I am weird and self promoting to write a blog at all and they are hoping that if they ignore me for long enough I will stop!
I am searching for the comfortable place for me at the moment. We’ll see how it goes.
Sculptures – yes! Mine! I will do another post with some more photos for you and the others in my close intimate select circle of blog friends to see:)
love Kate x
Hi Kate
I too will have to dash round soon and prepare the room for my friend from Helston. It will mean a MASSIVE clean-up as everything I can’t find a home for gets shoved in there.
I like all the comments about the meaning of friends and the purpose of blogging. You know my views that it is for me but I was surprised recently by someone berating me for not writing more…..I didn’t even know she read it.
Have fun with your friend and talk, talk, talk.
A blog is a weird thing, although probably it’s me who’s got weird as I’ve only felt this way for the last couple of years. Before that I used to write loads and just get on with it… it may have changed when I began to post a photo a day on Blipfoto. I don’t know. Anyway, enjoy your friend’s visit!