w.atching the w.orld unw.ind

As I rarely post at the weekends, I’m going to treat today as my first Blogday.

I first got into this medium via a visit to Tinka’s blogsite. Considering she’s a Dane, her output in her second language is flawless and a daily, must-read for me. Give it a try.

Following a few months of random commenting, I then had the honour and privilege to be among the contributors to Mike’s first Guest week and found myself thoroughly enjoying the postings.

Returning from a stay with friends on their coffee plantation in Hawai’I last year, we discovered that one of them had been diagnosed with cancer (though is making great recovery). The shock drove me to setting up my own blogsite, using Blogger, (since when I’ve dropped the “blogspot” element) and provided the inspiration for my first of my 154 subsequent postings.

I’ve posted more than I thought I would – inevitably it’s trivial stuff (other than recording Number One Daughter’s First in her degree in Human Psychology – no mean feat, that!) but I’ve tried not to post just for the sake of it.

I hope my “Daily Lyric” has reminded some of the near 3,000 visitors (admission of vanity, a site-meter) of songs that they’d possibly forgotten.

Stuart suggested a feeling of Carpe Diem about my first post – a phrase I had to look up. I hope a lot of diems have been carped since 2nd October 2003.

Mahalo (Hawai'ian for Thankyou.