RANDOM JOTTINGS


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You know that feeling you get when you go back to school in the autumn/fall? The summer has gone and the days are drawing in and you are either returning for a fresh term or starting a new school and you have a shiny new pencil case and empty exercise books (though now they are more likely to be an ipad) and you feel that something new is starting.

Well I am feeling that way today with Random Jottings and I am going to make more of an effort to post more than I have done hitherto. I was with Typepad for nearly twenty years (my anniversary next year) and I have to say that I felt it had got rather bogged down technically and I was finding it a bit more restrictive than it used to be. So I am not really surprised that it has closed down.

I have used WordPress before when I was helping out with a book festival so it is not totally unfamiliar to me, but I will be spending time getting used to all its features. At the moment it is all very Noir in black and white and if I wish to have glorious technicolour I have to upgrade. Needless to say this cost money. Quelle surprise…

So I am going to keep it basic for the time being and then one day you will click on and find that I am posting in lime green or some such. We shall see.

I will be posting re my London visit later on this week but this is just a post to say thank you to everyone who has taken the trouble to follow me over and who have written nice comments. I really do appreciate you all and I hope to make sure that there is more content from now on. I must also thank one redoubtable new follower who is reading her way through my archive which is jogging my memory as well because each time she reads a post and likes it I receive an email telling me. I can then click on and read something I wrote yonks ago and I am enjoying re=reading them too. So my thanks. (I must say I may reuse some of the content and re=edit it as I have additions to make to some of the reviews etc)

I am closing this introductory post to say a big thank you to my Computer Friend in New York. She has managed to do the swap over for me and, hopefully, my other typepad blogs will soon here as well. I am staggered that she could log onto my laptop in New York and sort it all out for me while I am sitting on my sofa in my pjs drinking tea while I watch and wonder.

I thanked her profusely for all her time and her response was “Oh but it’s fun”. There is, natch, a Jane Austen quote for this :

“One half of the world cannot understand of the pleasure of the other”…

Back soon

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10 responses to “A New Start”

  1. clhf97cccd9f457 Avatar
    clhf97cccd9f457


    So glad that you’re continuing Elaine. I hope to continue Juxtabook somewhere too.

    1. Elaine Avatar

      please do!

  2. Stephen Miler Avatar
    Stephen Miler

    Delighted that you are continuing with your blog Elaine. Hard to believe that it is more than 18 years that I accidentally first came across your WordPress blog , whilst searching the internet for something relating to Beethoven I think . I have come to look forward to your updates and reviews , admiring your resilience and motivation.

    Best wishes from Stephen

    1. Elaine Avatar

      thank you Stephen for those kind words. Yes I shall soldier on. Blogging has been a part of my life now for so long and I know I will miss it if I give it up

  3. Joy O'Toole Avatar

    I’m happy to follow you to your new home and look forward to more book suggestions.

    1. Elaine Avatar

      thank you Joy. As the nights draw in I find I am turning more to my old favourites, Victorian Literature and feel Dickens will be joining the pile soon

  4. Cathy Avatar

    I have to say changing the font (well I think you did) and making it bold means your post is so much easier to read. Thanks for that

    Rest up a bit then tell us all about your trip up to the big city

    1. simpsonlong1 Avatar
      simpsonlong1

      I just emboldened it as it really was so,pale

  5. Caroline Avatar
    Caroline

    hello Elaine 👋🏻 – looking forward to reading what you’ve been up to! All the best, Caroline

    1. simpsonlong1 Avatar
      simpsonlong1

      have a post re London trip which will be up in the next day or two

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