Er, well, not really, you see it's not my birthday today but the tenth birthday of this blog! Now, if that is not a sufficiently auspicious occasion on which to send a message to Barney Magroo up in 'them thar hills' for a case of his 'special brew' then I don't know what is! Reflecting deeply on everything that has passed in the last ten years - I can't think of a single useful thing to say! So instead, I shall reprint my very first blog post to show you that very little has improved round here:
Virgo non-Intacto!
I haven’t felt this nervous since I lost my virginity. Mind you, that was so long ago I can barely remember it, and I’m quite certain that the lady in question erased it from her memory before she’d got her knickers back on. Anyway, here I am, all of a tremble, after years of pissing into other people’s blogs, now I am a potential ‘pissee’. Hitherto, never at a loss for words, now what passes for mind is a blank.
I suppose I could begin by providing some biographical details, but I can feel my eyelids drooping at the prospect, and anyway, if you are daft enough to follow this blog, you will no doubt pick up some clues on the way, because one truth is constantly demonstrated in the world of blogdom, that a writer gives away much more about himself than he illumines in others.
Actually, this being my first time (nudge, nudge, wink, wink), I shall treat it as an experiment in order to discover the finer points of Typepad and how it all works. “I shall return!"
This brilliant and witty post elicited exactly one response, as follows:
I can say, in all honestly, that that was a superb opening essay. Well done!
Posted by: David Duff | Thursday, 17 February 2005 at 21:38
And yes, as you can see I was producing typos from the off!
