Old(ish) dog: new tricks

It's taken me months - probably over a year since I first considered blogging to get going. I need a lie down.

Why start blogging now? I have lived happily without it to date. Several reasons.

I'm doing doctoral research and am constantly jotting things down on scraps of paper - which get lost, are never where I want them etc. This will be a place I know I can access what I set down relatively quickly and easily. It also gives me a window on what I am willing to share/make public and what I want to keep private. Am I willing to ramble publicly? I say I want to trouble the academic habit of presenting a clever front - am I really? Last but not least - I want to prove to myself that I can do it.

That's enough for now - need to help put shopping away.