Three years ago I was sitting reading a posting on a website about something called blogging and , after reading a selection of the few blogs available then, I decided to have a go

So, on a domain far, far away (and after installing Moveable Type) this post was born.

After a few hesitant starts I ended up making this promise and then in October 2004 standing in Trafalgar Square I had a moment of revelation and decided to put photography and words on the same page.

As a result, and with the odd few gaps, we’ve been here two years. I still find it fun and challenging, often frustrating as I struggle to find the right words or simply to remember what I actually did but as I look back and read on the whole I smile and I hope it’s the same for you.

I still read other people’s blogs and I’m still amazed by the quality of the writing and photography and that’s what pushes me on.

We (I) got here thanks to these people and others so please take a moment to visit them as well :

• Mike Pugh, whose travel blog made me want to travel, write and film then have the ability to put it all online
• Francis Strand’s award winning blog with a linguistic twist writing about a city I love
• Meg Hourihan who started as geek here and ended up a foodie there
• Tonya Poole blogger and photographer and a whole lot more…
• David Nightingale who slowly taught me the value of Photoshop and that it’s not simply for turning the picture around

Happy Birthday weblog !