Gosh, I’m embarrassed to pop up after all this time and say I’m taking part in a blogging challenge! But I shall do my very best to reinstall the habit, and stop faffing about saying I must change the theme/tidy up the out of date bits/scrap everything and start an entirely new blog. I need to just write, and see what happens!

One thing I’ve done is go back to the very VERY beginning of my blogging journey and had quite a revelation. When I started Planet Penny, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing, I just wrote, and it was fun. I got a routine going for photographing what I was doing, downloading and editing the photos as I went, it all became as natural as breathing.

But gradually, things started to get technical. Blogger wasn’t good enough, it had to be WordPress. When I started my business I started to get nagged about Keywords, SEO, Cornerstone content, URLs all that stuff which makes me confused and grumpy.

And yes, I did build my stats up, and the business went well and all of that. But now I can see that it gradually sucked the pleasure out of just writing about the things I do and things I love.

Even Photoshop which I used to edit my photos and could do almost with my eyes closed gradually became so technical and ultimately too expensive that I gave up on it.

And then there was Brexit which wiped out the business side of Planet Penny, and then the pandemic which has affected everything and everybody.

So I’m throwing all that ‘stuff’ out of the window and I’m just going to turn up and woffle on about things. I hope I won’t be boring (do tell me if I am!) and that you’ll join in and tell me what you’ve been doing too.

I’m looking forward to the challenge, see you on 1st October…x