Monday, 6 August 2012

"I'm just sitting on a Fence" - seeing you again in October, I hope!

britta huegel

Dear Followers,
thanks to you all! You gave wonderful advice - and made it clear that you like my blogs.
Thank you for that! 
At the moment I feel that I moan a bit too much - which I think neither witty nor pretty :-)
And gardening on a balcony has its limitations - even in ballerinas.
So I will take a creative pause - or whatever the term is. From now on till the end of September I'll let the above mentioned blogs rest (I'm not one who recklessly throws things away :-), and keep only 'Britta's Happiness of the Day' on www.burstingwithhappiness.blogspot.com - though in a reduced form: two or three times a week should be enough.
So I hope you remember the ol' Tom Jones Song "Try to remember the kind of September" - the important thing is the refrain, of course:

Try to remember, and if you remember,
Then follow.


Follow, follow, follow, follow, follow,
Follow, follow, follow, follow.

Friday, 3 August 2012

Discussions


Good arguments. On both sides.
"I will stop blogging.", I told Husband. "I think it is the right thing to do. I will have more time to write Something More Substantial. You see: it frays out my time - looking for photos (each day one for 'Burstingwithhappiness), looking for poems, sometimes translating them from German into English (a very unprofessional thing to do). Waiting for comments, looking at the stats (oh, they roar at Happiness - while the comments that come on Youarewittyandpretty are manifold, but not the stats. Best results concerning price-earning ratio is Gardeninginhighheels). And I don't want to increase the number of followers, though I know how to do it - but that would mean more attention and re-commenting, and..."
"I don't think it is a good idea to stop now", said Husband. "You are a bit tired now - normally you are strong and positive but at the moment your spirits are a bit low, understandably..."
"But that is why I want to do it - I don't want to be on the lookout for comments anymore, don't want to lose a single moment by thinking about how my 'readers' might like or dislike it, I..."
"I don't think it is a good idea. You have a bit much on your plate at the moment" - "That's why! I need my strength!" - "... and blogging takes off your thoughts of the very tragic and sad blow of fate that happened to your best friend's child three days before. You are brooding too much."
"You are right. So you don't think that it would be a wise move?"
"No, definitely not. You love your blogs. You love your fellow-bloggers. You get inspiration, feed back, ideas and tips and..."
"Yes, you are right. Forty: love."