I started to blog around 2000 (and indeed taught "website in a day" at Bristol University in those days). but everything changes. Since the early days of the blog Facebook and Instagram etc) started and it seemed silly and selfish to continue to be separate from them.
But the soc media platforms have changed too. FB is full of advertisments and crazy opinions- as well as some sensible ones of course. And I use FB to make sure my friends are alive and doing interesting things . But I don't feel the need to share with 200 people what I ate for breakfast (toast and strawberries, same as a year ago) and fill their time unless they want to know. If you've managed to find this page I am sure you will want to know about breakfast-- what did/do you eat? Tell me.
I've titled this middle of the year because it is. The days are amazingly long. it's light at 10 and again at 4. In 5 days time it will be the longest day and then the days will shorten again. I'm always absolutely impressed by how primitive peoples had the patience and diligence to work out things like that and build things like stonehenge. I never would have been able to do it. And in another 4000 years how different will the world be again? Everyone having personal sun powered scooters and ear plugs? More than that? Or will they all be living on Mars which will have been renamed Musk?