Revival
A message from Brigid ....
I have been a blogger since 2005. At the height of my blogging busy-ness, I had "a small stable" of blogs on different topics: social and political commentary; desert spirituality; food; waste and ....
A few years ago I called time and ceased blogging altogether - although there was an occasional post. I had called it quits. I am an aged woman these days with a couple of serious illnesses. I am not allowed to drive. I am no longer active in organisations. I think it fair to say that I am housebound. I am active on Facebook, although I am not there as often as once I was. I have decided to embark on a re-entry into the blogging world ... beginning with The Trad Pad and, possibly, a return to my food blog, Oz Tucker. I have always used a lot of photographs on my blogs ... and I miss not being out and about with my camera.
The Trad Pad has been my blog for the lovely things of life. The controversial or political has seldom intruded. Occasionally, the spiritual has found its way in, but I kept spirituality for the blog, Desert. I don't yet know if I will revive that. I will stick pretty much to food and the lovely things of life. If I have some regularity with those two categories, I feel that I will be doing well. I hope that, with this blog new friendships can be formed and old friendships renewed; new lovelies discovered; new reflections can enter into the meaning of modern life. I would love to hear from you - particularly if you have suggestions for new topics to enter into the conversation. So, it is a new year. Let's see what it has in store, what it can bring to us. And I hope that those who share the spirit of The Trad Pad can spread the message of a world of beauty, the creativity of humanity, and the joys of simplicity and tradition. ~~~ February, 2017
3 comments:
Hi there,
I found you over at Patra's Place... I am from at the bottom of the hills in Melbourne... It was great to read a local blog... Ripe does sound an interesting place... I know of Miss Marples...
Hi Sharon - are you Gina's friend that she does lunch and other things with? We mustn't be too far from one another. I agree - it's great to read a local blog. Ripe is lovely. It's a bit like Fitzroy in the hills - the tables are second hand and well worn, there's a deck out the back and the food is great and they sell stuff too. So I think you could say it is trendy by looking non-trendy. Miss Marples is something. Pictures of Margaret Rutherford around the walls in her Miss Marples role. For some of us, she is our favourite Miss Marples. The place is done up to look like a two story English house with decor to suit. My daughter tells me though that the people who set it all up did the whole thing better in her view. The food is great. Huge portions. Always busy and you have to sit in a little nook to wait for your table. It's quite a tourist attraction. Sassafras is lovely - well aren't all the hills towns?
Yes I think I am the one... Although G has many, many friends... G and I try and get together and stitch from time to time... I am in the 'burbs between Blackburn and Surrey Hills... Still not too far away... The Stitching Shack - on my sidebar(now called Feather Stitching)is also a local blog... Yes those littel hamlets are lovely... I remember when Belgrave was considered 'out in the country' and those hills were holiday destinations... How times have changed...
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