Ah, the new year. A time for contemplation, setting of targets, new goals to aspire to. A time too for review and change.
As you’ll have noticed every time you desperately clicked “refresh” seconds after you turned on your computer each morning, it’s been a little while since my last post. A few weeks off over Christmas led inexorably to introspection and then – dare I say it – apathy.
Dear reader, I couldn’t quite pull my finger out and summon up the energy to tap out a few words about the vegetables that happened to be on my mind at the time. I’m ashamed to say that I found the idea a bit of a drag.
It seems that after just a year of trotting out self-important waffle about my allotment I have lost my mojo. I can’t think of anything interesting to say about fruit and veg. As my fingers dance across the keyboard the words that appear on the screen in front of me just aren’t worth reading.
What has happened? Where have the achingly funny posts gone? The hilariously witty comments on modern allotment life? Nope, there’s nothing left. I am an empty husk.
This is not a good state of affairs. Something must be done. The last thing the digital world needs is another tedious halfwit churning out lists of the vegetables they planted and how tall their seedlings are this week. A blog should be better than that.
So I’ve decided to call it a day. A greater blogger than I might rage against the lying of the light, might see this as a challenge to raise their game and reach ever higher standards. But friends, I am no such being. I haven’t even removed the dead tomato plants from the greenhouse: really, what are the chances of me making that kind of effort?
No, it’s curtains for Drooling. It’s been fun while it lasted, and I shall miss you, my virtual friends, but you deserve better. Be free! Find new blogs! See what you’ve been missing while ploughing through this self-indulgent drivel! (You could do worse than look at the blogs mentioned on the right hand side, by the way).
And now if you’ll excuse me, I shall slip on the headphones and choose a tune one last time…
On the ipod while gently dabbing the eyes. (must have some grit in them or something). The Strokes / Is that it?
January 18, 2010 at 1:37 am
WHAT? No! Can you be persuaded to reconsider? You don’t have to post often… Lord knows, I understand the need to pace oneself. But don’t quit! Really, Drooling, please.
January 18, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Hey what’s with all the mellow drama I do hope you are winding us up, even I take breaks from time to time and certainly at this time of the year when there is not much happening at the plot/ the garden there isn’t much to type about.
Anyway I do hope you would reconsider and restart when the fresh spring gets you going again on the plot, as it is easier to write when there is something to write about:).
and Psst! now I’m not calling any names but you aint the only one with dead tomato plants in the greenhouse.
January 18, 2010 at 11:46 pm
I love your blog. You could even write about growing your toe-nails and not lose this faithful reader.
😦
January 19, 2010 at 10:40 am
Your poor drooling husk. Surely when you come across an amusing shaped vegetable in the future the urge to post will be too much for you?
January 20, 2010 at 9:12 am
NOooooooooooo – please
You have loyal drooling fans out here – please reconsider. I’m sure once spring comes and you’re back out amongst it in the garden, it will all come rushing back. So take a break but PLEASE don’t stop altogether. Where else can we find such shining wit.
On the i-pod whilst writing this
Ain’t too proud to beg – Rolling stones
PS I agree there are other great gardening blogs, but who else does the ipod thing?
PPS I also agree about the toe nails
January 20, 2010 at 10:16 pm
Hey Drools, now you’ve got that burden off your back I look forward to your next carefree post!
For the Ipod: “Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me )”- Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
January 29, 2010 at 10:57 pm
Hey Drools
don’t make it bad
Take a SAD song
and make it better…
Here comes the sun.
Won’t you come out to play?
January 31, 2010 at 11:32 pm
Hi I know you’ve said you have walked away from blogging but I had to pass this on to you. I’ve left you an award on my blog http://kellasvegeplotandothermusings.blogspot.com/
February 3, 2010 at 9:32 am
Hey drooling, please don’t give up blogging, I’ve found the winter months can be uninspiring when theres nothing happening in the garden, I didn’t update my own blog for about 2 months, but now that the season has started again I have a renewed enthusiasm and have posted the first post of 2010. So take a break and then maybe your enthusiasm will return when you see the first seedlings break the surface, but don’t quit:-O
on the ipod: The Frames, revelate
February 28, 2010 at 9:55 am
Waiting patiently.
Who knows….
Warmest of wishes to you and your Drooling family.
March 18, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Birds flyin’ high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel
Its a new dawn, its a new day, its a new life for me
yeah, its a new dawn its a new day its a new life for me ooooooooh
AND I’M FEELING GOOD