OK, I admit it.  An old friend googled me the other day - no idea why, I think he knows where all the bodies are buried - and happened across the site.  I’m the first to admit that my site is a work in progress, but I admit he has a point.  He remarked that it was a remarkably empty site for a writer.

I set this site up for a few reasons.  One was that I wanted to have a play with Wordpress, so this is something of a sandbox activity for me while I get used to it, knowing that it’s not going to be getting huge traffic while I work out what I do and don’t want to do with it.

Another reason was that I have friends and family all over the world and this will hopefully give them a chance to see what I’m up to if they wish, whether or not they’re on Facebook.  It also means that people I used to know at school can take an educated decision on whether I sound like the kind of person they want to know now, before they get in touch with me on FB.  There’s nothing worse than having someone be all enthusiastic at finding you, only to have the distinct impression that the post-reunion response is ‘why in hell did I think that would be a good plan?’  What can I say - sometimes there’s a reason people don’t keep in touch.

And the other reason for putting together the site was because I’ve been getting back into the freelancing.  Some of it has been via oDesk, most other things have been with long-standing clients who now know I’m back in circulation.  But in general I wanted to be able to post samples of my writing for existing and potential clients to see.

Of all these things, all I have currently succeeded in doing is posting occasional blog entries.  Which is pretty shabby for a writer, I know.  And I apologise.  But please, be happy for me: the reason I’m not getting more articles and other stuff up here is because I’ve got lots of work on

I’m going to remove some bits of my site that are currently content-free zones to make life more simple for anyone visiting, but I promise to put some work into the other parts of my site behind the scenes, ready to unveil them in the next couple of months.

m xxx