It’s always challenging trying to put one’s thoughts down onto paper (well, not literally in this day and age of computers, laptops, mobile phones, apple watches - does anyone actually write stuff down anymore???) I used to love writing long letters to friends, relatives... it was lovely getting a 3-4 pager in the post, sitting down with a cuppa, snuggled into my favourite chair in the conservatory with the sun warming me even if it was pouring down; the beauty of 3 walls of glass. 

Anyway, I digress, yes, blogging... It’s the current trend along with vlogging (to the uninitiated, a vlog is a video blog) the way we all like to communicate with a discerning public. Actually, they don’t need to be discerning, just about vaguely interested in whatever it is you’re trying to get across, lol. A great example is instagram. Oh my days, how instagram has captured the imagination! Now you have people who are instagram stars, making a career from putting out posts about the most mundane of things. For example, a friend was recently telling me about an instagram blogger who now has over 2 million followers but started their site posting about cleaning products! A bit like the ‘Mary Berry effect’ (you know how that works, right? Mary wears a certain jacket and it sells out, or she uses a certain product and it sells out... get it?) this person highlighted a certain product – I must admit, it was one of my favourites – and it sold out in minutes!! You can barely get your hands on said product now for love nor money, WTF!