UPDATE - It turns out that I can rename my blog so I have changed it from 'This is England 2010' to 'This is England', being as how it is 2011 and I'm still finding things to say...
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I just responded to someone else's blog for the first time in my life, but had to keep on trimming my words down as I exceeded the word limit for comments. I've taken that as a clue that I should start a blog of my own rather than creating one in other people's comments boxes. So if you are reading this piffle, blame Kathryn Daley who has written very intelligently (i.e. I agree with her) about guys, girls and friendship.
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I just responded to someone else's blog for the first time in my life, but had to keep on trimming my words down as I exceeded the word limit for comments. I've taken that as a clue that I should start a blog of my own rather than creating one in other people's comments boxes. So if you are reading this piffle, blame Kathryn Daley who has written very intelligently (i.e. I agree with her) about guys, girls and friendship.
As soon as I chose it, I realised that putting the year in the name of your blog is probably rather dumb. On the other hand, I am in England, it's 2010 and after finishing watching Shane Meadows' devastatingly gruelling but outrageously good four part TV serialisation This is England 86 yesterday evening, a tribute seems appropriate.
So beyond being a tribute to Meadow's extraordinary ability to portray English working class culture, I'll pretend this is planned obsolescence and that this blog is just a test to enable me to learn about the practicalities of blogging here.
And if I'm still writing this blog in England 2058. Well, frankly, I'll be surprised as I'll be a 100 years old, which will make me a centenarian, unless I can get a hat like this...
...which would make me a centenarian centurion and the envy of every pensioner in the queue at Eccles' Post Office.
