Cat picture.

Regular Blogging…

Sounds like Allbran. And at times has felt an unpalatable process for me to chew on and out pour anything regularly just for the hell of it – after all – there is nothing to buy here 🙂
I think the Word Press App has helped – it isn’t perfect – but it the fact I can load photos direct from my phone cuts out a lot of waiting for my Broadband to load stuff.
It has been a while since I missed a week on any of the Blogs. Three months.

I am not creating evergreen content; it is all freshly created organic seasonal musings. I am setting no word limits or other boundaries. I try to keep something slightly different on each web site – sometimes there are only so anyways of saying ‘no progress’. It is an interesting exercise in discipline. I am still not pushing too hard, but I am finding my voice and stride. I know I should be integrating with Twitter – and not FaceBook – and I should also make use of Pinterest or Instagram. But after all, I have had a lifetime of talking to myself 🙂 So, maybe not this week… And there is nothing to buy here…
I was journalling from a young age and the stock, farm, orchard and garden – and horses – all have their diaries and journals – quite a pile from the last 40 years. ‘Blogging’ seems an extension of that – which I suppose will one day make for Content Marketing so I might as well make this part of my routine.
On weeks when the best I can say is that ‘my subconscious is working on It.’ I have shown up and produced something – and the longer I go without a miss – the more I want to keep going. And the more it gives me a chance to look objectively at some aspect of what I have been doing with the writing, the ponies or farm and react to politicing at large as it affects me and mine.
I still do not want /or intend to write non-fiction about the farm or ponies beyond this as I am not about ‘how to do’ x y or z.
I am happier talking about farming than to venture to offer advice to others about their horses – comparing the two there is more advice and more opportunities to learn about horses in the world than there are to learn and read about farms and smallholding – the internet is improving this and I follow Blogs from all over the globe from rooftop gardening in Canada to the Far East and deepest Africa drawn to see how other Agriculturists do it – with boots on or barefoot.
I am fascinated by the way we live and provide food for ourselves and horrified that the more that is available, to know, the less informed people really are, and the more damage is done to mankind by the media, governments and self-interested parties polarising people to pointless squabbles over dodgy statistics, nefariously funded ‘science’ and knee jerk headlines.
I am no Donald Trump fan, but he has a point about fake news, and for global politics, I think phoney science that lacks transparency or does not validate the qualifications of its ‘experts’ or expose its source of funding is about as damaging – he who pays the piper calls the tune. How can any of us make these sweeping decisions based on unknown/unpublished bias at the core of anything we are told comes from research funded by X for a purpose – there are no free dinners – Vegan or otherwise? Each has a cost and consequences that vary as to where you are in the world.
You cannot argue with plastic in the Arctic or the oceans – it is there. Or melting glaciers and ice cap. Commonsense says for us ALL to reduce emissions, but it is too big a subject and manipulation to declare other things as black and white when at best they are grey and are so easily manipulated to massage the truth for another unseen agenda.
Follow the money. After all, we want the truth and to be responsible for our welfare and what we pass on to the future generations and if the BREXIT treason has taught me anything it is deep suspicion of people who say they know best – and have a plan. Follow the money every time. No free dinners.
As for ‘boots on’ or ‘barefoot’ – in the Horse World, I would never venture into expressing an opinion beyond my own fields on a given day with a particular horse or pony. There are enough, less circumspect, opinions eloquently expressed – and freely given – on both subjects and I am happy to read all of them; with the view that all horses are different. And even then the horse’s needs change with the environment it finds its self in and may change over time, so finite and definitive rules are not logical.
We all need to eat. We don’t all need – or like to ride – but we also all want to be free and horses are how I escape – when it’s not raining too hard – and then I write to escape. And when I want to think about writing or riding, I do farm, orchard or garden jobs or I cook and eat something or read. These are the things behind my Blogging habits.
I noticed one Blog had gotten to 100 posts and then that another had passed that – unnoticed – a while back. Still, it is nice to think I have done it – learnt how to and actually to use them. Cat picture posted. Now for the fiction then 🙂