Blog Lock Down

For a while I've been thinking of various excuses to stop this blog ...

• I feel I'm writing drivel;
• It's getting slowly bigger, and I feel like I'm losing control of it;
• I know there are 'lurkers', and lurkers irritate me; and
• It's so dark here and I can't take a decent photo. 

 I'm reading my way through this pile of books ... I read the front one yesterday. Who's read it? What an awfully tragic book. I couldn't put it down. And then lay awake all night thinking about young boys at war!

But then I think of all I get from the blog ...

• I can create bullet-point lists;
• I've met wonderful people and I enjoy the friendships I've made through the blog. I'm sure they're are a lot more people to meet;
• I love the comments and the banter it promotes;
• It gives me an outlet which I didn't realise I needed until I started writing again;
• It allows me to carry-on about Mid-Century design and brag about the inherited under-achievements of my children.

The conflict!

On one hand, to me it is very personal; I put my funny-looking children, my modest home and my crazy life on it, so to have people regularly read it, without them actually making themselves known, irritates me.

On the other hand, it scares me to think that a post I did on Wodehouse's Carry On, Jeeves, can end up as a book review on the Indian-equivalent of Amazon.

But realists will tell me that's part-and-parcel of a public blog ... which is why I'm thinking I'll make it 'private' with a known-list of limited readers. For a while, anyway, until I can get a grip on it again.

That way, I may feel more comfortable with what I put on it, and I'll know who's seeing, for example, photos of Martha with toast squashed into her nappy-enclosed bottom-end.

Because the bigger the blog gets, the more responsible I feel towards, and protective of, my children. And I also feel responsible to you readers, the ones I'm aware of, to write interesting stuff and not get hung-up about what I've written and who's reading it.

So, here's the rub. If you really want to continue reading, you'll need to put your hand up and send me your Google account email address to (makeminemidcentury@gmail.com), so I can add it to the list of Readers before I shut the 'cyber door'.

Just because you're following or subscribed now, does not mean you'll be able to read the private blog.

It's as if I'm starting from scratch.

If you want to know more, you can read this link. 

I'll change it over in the next week or so, and I may make it public again, I don't know. I just think I'll feel better about it if I lock-it-down for a bit.

Fin.