To you all.

I would like to start with a question if I may?

Does anyone know why my blog is being hit by incomprehensible gibberish about gold?

I'm not even a fan of gold.  Being ruled by the moon, I am a silver lover.  Oh and that's another thing...being ruled by the moon, how come werewolves can be killed by silver bullets?  You'd think they would absorb them instead.

Anyways, how are you all?  Hope you are well?

Life, as usual has interfered with my blogging and it has been a tad overwhelming.  I am a fairly laid back person (for that read horizontal) and when things go at a pace outside my comfort zone, I tend to be a little disgruntled.

Aaarrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhh!!!  I have just scrolled down the page and noted the dreaded word Twitter!!!!!  Good grief, when did that happen?  More to the point...why did it happen?  The hippy who, despite his title, is a technophile, has a site on Twitter - whatever that means.  Whilst being a medieval historian is no excuse or reason for being a Luddite and, in all honesty, I am frankly, quite well versed in technology, despite MY title, nevertheless, there are some things that I have yet to grasp.  One of those is Twitter.

I am sure that there are thousands of good reasons to use it but, I have not yet managed to get my head around them.  Can someone please tell me what is SO great about being told that a friend is in a supermarket queue?  Or, that a friend is washing dishes or...blimey, the list is endless.  I though that accommodating such banalities was why FACEBOOK was invented.  Okay, I admit I am on Facebook but...it's the preferred communication medium of many of my friends and who am I to stand in the way of er...progress????  My younger generation friends, including my time share children, have this fashion of writing on Facebook that is second only to text messages.  Seemingly, vowels are out of date and show your age!  Why type whole words when a single letter and numbers will do?

Indeed.

Nevertheless, the purist in me has a knee jerk reaction to bastardised words, which is funny given my general mode of communication - English!  Which reminds me, appropos of nothing English - go figure! - I am going to start another blog, which will basically just be me making notes to self regarding general medieval stuff, lecture info, lesson plans and other stuff no use to man or beast unless you are a medievalist or masochist, or perhaps, BOTH!  I say this because it will have a Welsh name, in the hopes that I wont get any rubbish about gold, or anything else of similar pointlessness!  You are naturally more than welcome to view it but of course I certainly will not be offended if you don't comment on it.  In fact, if ANYONE does, I shall be gobsmacked!!  So, it will be LLEUADYDDRAIG, which is effectively Welsh for lunadraconis, in English dragonmoon.  I did once have a site on here called dragonmoon which was going to deal with my spiritual issues but sadly I allowed it to lapse.  I might start that again as well.  One is nothing if not categorisingly challenged - if that even makes sense!

Of course, the problem with having blogs that deal with lots of different aspects of your life, is that there has to be a crossover.  Nevertheless, I do feel sometimes that I burden my blog friends with things they don't necessarily need to know, as overshare isn't always the answer.

As I have said before, I really do hope that you are all well and I apologise for not having caught up with you all sooner.  I have tried to log in when possible to keep up with you all but unfortunately, you are all such prolific writers it has been a difficult task.  So I apologise to you all unreservedly.  My karma will get me no doubt.

So, until the next time, I will love and leave you all - blessed be xxx