Now I understand

I’ve often wondered why people start blogs and then don’t keep them up to date. After all, how difficult can it be to write a few words every day? Now I understand.

I thought that changing this blog for a while to record my DIY efforts would give me plenty to write about and would be a nice record of everything we have done to get the house looking spick and span ready to be snapped up by the first viewer. There is plenty to write about but, somehow, it just doesn’t get written. The decorating/refurbishment is coming along and plenty has been done but much more remains, nowhere near halfway yet. Every so often I think to myself ‘I’ll do something on the blog tonight’ but at the end of the day I simply can’t be bothered to sit in front of the computer and type. I’d much rather just go to bed.

It certainty hasn’t helped that I’ve not felt well for several weeks and this past week have had a pain in my chest and get pretty exhausted pretty quickly. The doctor seems to think it’s just indigestion but I’ve managed to have an ECG which seems to show everything is normal with my heart. Good or bad? Well, if I’m not going to have a heart attack soon that’s good, but then what the hell is this pain in my chest and tiredness that stops me wanting to crack on with all the work that needs to be done? It sure ain’t indigestion.

I’ve come to the conclusion that blogging is much like dieting. It’s not particularly difficult, there’s no reason not to do it and it really doesn’t take a great deal of effort. Just like dieting though it starts off with all good intentions and reaches a point - never worked out why - where it all becomes too much effort and is abandoned (but it always stays in the back of the mind for when times are better). It just becomes easier to eat what you like and not try to think up words to put on the blog. Maybe I’ve got too many other things to think about and there is a limit to what my brain can cope with.

So, blogging is sort of on the back burner and I’m getting fatter. Might write about the forthcoming ‘Grand Tour’ though which is only a few weeks away now. Really should do that.