About time….

I realised today – as I was taking some (I think well deserved) time out sitting in the sunshine in our back garden – that I had not written a new post on my site for nearly four months!

After an initial pang of guilt I went on to think “What’s the problem?” – I’m realistic enough to realise that a lack of posts does not constitute an international crisis. How many people are out there on tenderhooks waiting for my next snippet of news?

And here’s the nub: I know several people who seem to run their lives around website and social media interaction, but (and maybe it’s an age thing) I can’t build up either that level of enthusiasm or the time needed for it!

Don’t get me wrong: I enjoy updating my website and using Facebook and Twitter, but there are many more demands on my time – both in terms of work and leisure – and my priorities often don’t stretch to the virtual realm.

Maybe, you might be thinking, if I changed my priorities and spent more time on blog posts and tweets I would get more online interest which would translate into more music sales and more concerts. That sounds good, but we all have to strike a balance we’re comfortable with….

Right now I’m comfortable sitting in my garden chair listening to birdsong and the drumming of a great spotted woodpecker whilst writing this post on the WordPress app I’ve just installed on my iPhone!!

If you’re lucky this may be the advent of many new posts detailing my activities; concerts, recordings, birding trips and so on. Or maybe you don’t care, or have your own priorities, which don’t include reading my blog posts!

Or maybe no-one will read this and I’m just satisfying my own need to justify my existence publicly….Hello…..Is anyone there?……Hello……Hello……