Distraction

Yes, distraction.

I have been finding myself distracted by numerous other things and thus haven't posted on here (or the other one) for over a year, yes a whole year. Its actually less than 3 months short of 2 years since the other blog had any attention, let a lone a post. 

See, distraction.

In my defence (I know I don't need one, but just in case I ever do) I have been super busy with other things, lots of other things. If you throw getting married and moving house into the mix too you can see why I may have been distracted. 

I also got distracted, well, distracted myself, when looking for a first image for this post. I was going to go on about not posting for so long due to liking the symmetry on my dashboard, no I don't have a new car, so can't blame that as a distraction too. Interestingly the new car (not that it is now) arrived on the day of the Brexit Vote (23rd June 2016).......

........so not long before the last post, but not since it so doesn't officially qualify as an excuse or distraction. I call it the brexit vote, of course its correct title was the "United Kingdom European Union membership referendum 2016" just rolls of the tongue doesn't it. Anyway my reason for bringing it up (the vote thing) is that I want to go into more detail about how the economy, housing situation and confidence in the government has been affected. I particularly want to examine, then, with the input of those who are reading this, carry out a detailed appraisal of.................. honestly I really really don't, another case of distraction I fear.

The dashboard I was actually talking about (prior to my distraction) was the blog dashboard. Refer to the stuff I a was going on about in the last post, all that time ago. With that in mind, I was going to post something along the lines of my delay in posting being based purely on the fact I didn't want to ruin the 14 plus 14 thing I had going on. As the post was going to start that way and be based around that I was looking for an image along the lines of "I wont lie to to you" because I would have been, at least initially, by saying the delay was due to keeping the symmetry and 14 - 14, before then going on to say "I cant lie" (and possibly including another image) and coming clean, keeping up, good. That was far too long a sentence, something I make a habit of, not just in the written form either, breath Neal, breath, stop distracting yourself too and get to the point.

So I started looking for said image and stumbled across the one that I started the blog with instead, because it tickled me when I saw it, see, distraction. 

I should add that I really am fine, very fine, or mighty fine in fact, it's just that the image tickled me. 

Will it be a year before the next post, will the blog get some attention layout wise, will the other blog ever get posted in again, for the answers to this and more, stay tuned.....

This post was bought to you by the letter d (for distraction), the number 15 (work it out, the clues are there) and the colour blue, not because I am (far from it) but its a good colour :-)

Double 14

An interesting image?

Probably not, unless you are a darts fan, but it is there for a reason, please allow me to explain.

As you may have noticed, it’s been rather a long time since my last post (over 9 months) and if it hadn’t been for the meaning behind the image ^ up there ^ it would have been longer.

It’s surprising how time flies by (it is most definitely an age thing, like many things) and I have always been the type to be easily distracted, ooooh look, a spider…… Where was I, that’s it easily distracted :-)

It has been a very busy 2016 thus far, with one thing and another (or even many things and many others) so the blogs (and other things) have taken a back seat, due to me being distracted.

There has been much wedding planning, for ages it seemed a long while off (well it was) but now it’s getting in to that, we really need to decide, do, arrange, book, xyz as we have less than 6 months to go. It’s all rather exciting. I have also been busy work wise, for numerous reasons that may or may not feature in a future post. On top of that we have acquired a kitten too quite recently. I should say at this point, I am not a lover of cats and allergic to them, I will just leave that comment hanging there for a while……….

When I say I am “not a lover of cats” and allergic to them, the 2 actually go hand in hand and as it turns out are both bare faced lies inaccurate, totally inaccurate. I think I have always been not keen on cats due to being allergic, so it’s not a case of not being a lover of them, I think I just always knew (thought I knew) I couldn’t allow myself to get close to them because of the allergy monster lurking inside me. Long story short (not easy for me as you know) it turns out there are certain cats that are better for those with allergies. This is a good thing, my dearly beloved fiancé adores cats, used to have one and has wanted another for a long while. However, this was not possible, after all, I’m allergic remember, turns out I am not, not to all cats anyway. We did some research, found an incredibly helpful and lovely breeder of said cats, spent many hours over several visits with said breeder (and cats) and the above pic is the end result. She is the cutest most adorable cat I have seen with a wonderful temperament and super personality. Sneezing, runny eyes, no sir not I, ok, a little (very little) initially, but it was also peak hay fever time when she arrived which most likely didn’t help. So the moral of the story, I don’t know, does it need one?

Ok, ok, I will provide one. Don’t assume something is unchangeable. I know, it’s rubbish as “morals of the story” go, but I never planned on providing one, this post is supposed to be about 2 lots of 14.

Coming back to that, as said I nearly didn’t post here today. I was actually going to post in the other blog (which has also been neglected for a prolonged period, again) but I couldn’t. Well I could, of course, that was my aim, but then I saw the number of posts on each blog. The other blog (28) and the number on this one (14) which was good and appealed to my even number freakiness and sense of tidy, balanced order.

So what’s the problem you say, well, it wasn’t actually 14 on this one, if it was, I could have stuck to my original plan and posted on the other blog, after all, the symmetry couldn’t last forever, unless I never posted again, which to be fair it did look like after my extended hiatus. On closer examination though it transpired I had a “draft” post on this blog so it looked like 14 but was actually 13. So you see I had no choice, not really, if I had posted on the other one, it would have been 29 and 13, well that doesn’t work in any way does it. At least for now there is a sense of orderliness and balance on my blogger dashboard, yes that will change, of course it will, but for now, there is tranquillity, which is nice :-)