Welcome to my 8,437th attempt at a blog

Ok so maybe I'm exaggerating a tad with that title, but it doesn't feel too far off...

I'll have a cool idea for a blog, start it, then begin to lose interest a few months in, get another stellar idea for a blog, start that, get bored, start another, ad nauseam.

So why will this blog be different? Well quite frankly, I need to give myself a swift sharp kick up the arse for the following reasons:

1. I'm rapidly approaching the end of my 30s, and while I have many good things to show for my life so far (great family, loving partner, nice home etc) I want something I can point to with pride and say, see this, I did this thing! And unlike all those other blogs, I didn't give up on this one, and I made it a success! Talking of not giving up on a project...
2. I want a project I'll actually stick with through the fun and the crap times, and not run in the other direction as soon as something shinier comes alone. And finally
3. I want to try and improve my writing skills. I love to write, but even when I have the time to do it I'm usually too bloody lazy to actually sit down and write.

I have a few other reasons, but those are my main ones.

So, onto what this blog will actually be about...?

Funny you should ask that, because I don't really have an answer for you, not a firm one anyway. It's just going to be whatever I feel inclined to write about at the time.

Find what is quite obviously a haunted figurine in a charity shop and buy it, just to see if we end up finding it standing outside our bedroom door in the middle of the night? Write about it. Spent a week eating unusual soups because I was bored of having the same ones all the time? Write about it. Find a pothole whose shape is remarkedly close to that of a duck wearing a top hat? Write about it.

In conclusion, I'm counting on you future me, so don't let me down!