This post marks the first anniversary of me starting this blog. I would like to thank all those who have dropped by and read my various musings.
The turn of the year also offers me a good opportunity to remind myself about what I am doing… or think I am doing. Fortunately, I have a ‘What to expect’ statement of intent in my first post. My intentions remain largely unaltered, but I do not rule out development in unexpected directions. (Even directions as yet unknown to me!) I find that as I go along, there are certain things I’d like to share that are well suited to the blog format and other things that are not. Fortunately, I appear to have plenty of the former to be going on with.
The aim of this blog is to share things from my former academic life that cannot be shared in any other way. Otherwise they would vanish. I wonder what would have happened to these musings were it not for the invention of the blog and the blog format. I wonder how much has been lost of the musings of our forebears because they lacked such a vehicle. Even if some of the things I share are of minimal (possibly no!) value, I hope they are worth a quick read and a wry smile before they are forgotten.
Some might be worth remembering, though. At the end of a lecture many years ago, a student approached me and asked if I’d taught a girl called Sarah. I said that I had and that I remembered her very well. ‘I thought so,’ the student replied. ‘She taught me this subject on an access course I did before coming here. All the interesting and funny stories you’ve been telling, she now tells!’ I was deeply flattered.
If you, the reader, can use anything from these blogs, then please do so. I would be delighted if they were to find a new lease of life elsewhere.
Reminder: I continue to post on the 3rd, 11th, 19th, and 27th days of each month. This was an additional anniversary post.
