A sea (or blog) change

Dear readers,

Welcome to my newest blog and thank you for dropping by. Having become entirely fed up of my previous Blogspot blog, especially the feeling I was getting er... bloggers' block, I have decided to move on to a brand new blog here. I have also begun a Tumblr. blog: write-ideas.tumblr.com.

Some of my interests include vintage books, especially annuals and school stories, newer books – both fiction and non-fiction, old war medals, old fountain pens, reading, history, stamps, militaria, Sharpe, antiques, vintage advertisements – any ephemera, really – match labels, snuff boxes, die-cast models, autographs, travelling, English grammar and vocabulary, writing (working on fiction now, though I also love non-fiction), book reviews, Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington, Downton Abbey, Cranford (both book and TV series), reading a variety of books (naming favourite authors would take a few years), history of the British Empire, shopping (what a comedown), fashion-and-makeup, vintage comics and papers, writing cases, vintage pottery, postal history and so on….

Which brings me to this blog. This is no place for ''ramblings or musings''. I shall not delve into my deepest thoughts or wax eloquent on my profound philosophy – always presuming I have one. This blog is purely intended to share my love of collectibles, particularly books, and love of language, with er… the world. At least, the part of the world that has access to the internet and has nothing better to do than read this. I may also share a tiny bit of my writing aspirations.

In other words, I may just talk about a recently-purchased 1924 Girls’ Own Annual, a Blackbird fountain pen, a Crimea medal, an advertisement for Pears’ Soap c. 1930, my ongoing short story and how much I hate it, or… the use of transitive and intransitive verbs.

Now that the purpose of this blog has been established, I will admit that I may be guilty of plagiarising myself in the near future. I will copy a few of my pet posts from the previous blog so as not to lose them forever. However, I shall make sure that I delete them from the earlier blog.

Give an ''intro'' an inch and it has taken a whole mile. Er… post. I shall wind up for tonight and ramble about the School Friend Annual very soon. Till next time, write on!