To Blog or not to Blog?

No, that is not really the question! Of course I will continue to blog as it is just such fun. I love the comments and I also enjoy documenting my artistic life in this way a lot more than I had ever anticipated. Having said that I am sometimes enormously frustrated by my pathetic dial-up connection ( really the only drawback of living in this beautiful rural location) which means that everything seems to take forever and what really upsets me most is that it makes it very hard to pay return visits and leave comments on other blogs. This is further complicated by the fact that for some reason (if you know why, tell me!!) I can't leave comments at all on embedded comment pages. It's one of the reasons I gave up on Gothic Arches as I felt too guilty about not leaving return comments.

I have been giving this a lot of thought over the last 6 months and then, all of a sudden, and after reading this post by Lenna I found an answer. Lenna was inspired by a book which I discussed some time ago on my Now Reading link at the side of this blog. The book was Life is a Verb, by Patti Digh, based on what you would do with your life if you knew you only had another 37 days more to go. One of her suggestions is to Be Generous and this is what Lenna took onboard.



And that is also my solution to my comments problems. I'm going to send ATCs out into the world to those people visiting and commenting on this blog. I'm not saying when this will happen as I want them to be surprise arrivals. And they will go out at random, you don't have to comment on this post, any post will do! However I do need your mailing address to do this.



So if you are interested, let me have your mailing information (which I promise I will only use to mail your ATC!!). If you're not happy leaving it in the comments, just send it to me in an e-mail instead (address on the right of this blog) and I'll keep them in a file till I mail you an ATC. This is an ongoing project and I hope to mail at least one ATC a month. Just to say thank you for your visit. And rest assured, even though I can't leave commments on some blogs, I still visit and enjoy!



Finally so as not to make this post too boring with just text I'm showing you a very pretty picture of our clematis Sealand Gem, which lives in a pot in our greenhouse and has just started to flower!