A new start

In the deep midwinter... I took a fortnight off work to "sort out my life". This includes the chaos of paperwork in my home office, a long list of minor maintenance jobs at home (sometime I may record the tale of the locksmith who stole my security gate lock...), car maintenance (more like resuscitation, truth be told - the Venerable Beetle is 34 years old and threatening to gasp her last fumes at any minute), long-postponed alterations to my favourite jeans, some furniture renovation, major decluttering & sell-off of stuff ... and general reorganisation.

Now that I've had a bit of breathing space to gain perspective, I'm horrified by the accumulated effects of too many late nights and weekends of work, and am determined not to slip back into that routine once this leave is over. And if that means changing jobs, so be it. I'm quite tempted to go back to freelance editing, with some Internet marketing to cover the gaps and provide increasing residual income. I've dabbled in more ebiz programmes than I care to remember over the past five years or so, and paid my dues in time, money and 'putting it down to experience'. But now and then one finds integrity - businesses that actually work if one puts in the necessary effort. I have one business site that has been running low-key for a few years and brings in small but welcome cheques; now I've come across a simple, sturdy venture that looks promising and is refreshingly free of hype. So that's where I've decided to invest a few hours a week as from today. Will keep you posted once I know more.

What this blog will ultimately be about, I'm not sure ... we'll see. Could be about the environment - sustainable building and agriculture are what I'd be doing if I had the wherewithall; science? (I was a physicist in my distant youth); the English language and its misuse; personal development (I'm a bit of a junkie when it comes to courses); spirituality ... or the art of decluttering. Even that sentence could do with a bit less clutter.

Anyway, enough for now - I just wanted to establish the Flagondry. (A cousin of the Flutterby.)