A little bit of blogging angst

Hi all,

Thanks for your emails about this page. I thought I might best explain my absence in a post, so please pardon my self-indulgence...

I have found keeping this blog going a real struggle. Not because I don't have subject matter - but because it takes quite a bit of time to pick pictures and find the right words to describe how much fun I am having. Are you surprised to learn that each post takes me about five hours from photo downloading to final polish?

That's quite a lot of effort and, unfortunately, my job has been leaving me with little energy in the evenings. It is hard to be creative all day and then come home to do it for 'fun'. (Blogging was much easier when I had a boring/depressing job!) But, I am proud of the record this blog has become for the many blessings and adventures I am encircled by, and I have many stories I would like keep sharing.

When I read yesterday that most blogs only last three years at most, it motivated me to update the blog and give it another go. I've been travelling and blogging for just over two years, and I would like to keep it up until I leave for Aotearoa again. And, since the adventures keep coming, that may be some time yet.

So, with your ongoing (and very gratefully acknowledged) interest in all that I am eating, drinking, seeing and doing, let's aim for a third blogging birthday in August 2009!

It means the next few posts will be very much retrospectives, but hopefully I'll be back to blogging-as-it-happens by September.

I love my life, and sharing it doubles the pleasure.

Your friend,
Amy.