Blogging

I don't do new year's resolutions. I think there is no point in saying I will do something just to set myself up to fail! But that doesn't mean that I don't reflect at the end of a year and the start of an new one. I think it is human nature to need time to reflect and the opportunity to think about your life and what you would like to change.
A couple of years ago when I bought a new camera I decided to try and take a photo every day of the year to make myself work out how to use it properly. I did manage to complete the year. I'm not sure, however whether it made me a better photographer. Some of the photos were amazing and I was really pleased with them. Others, however were total rubbish and I only took them because I had committed myself to taking one every day. My colleagues at work thought I was totally crazy, especially when it was horrible weather and I was off out at lunchtime to take my photo. Some days I was taking photos of houseplants at 10pm to get it done before I went to bed. I did enjoy the experience and felt pleased that I had managed to set this target and actually achieved it.
So I was wondering what would be a good thing to do this year. A daily challenge is something that I'm not sure I can do again, at least not so soon after the last one. Having thought about it I have decided that I'm rubbish at blogging and don't do it nearly often enough. So my challenge this year is to blog at least once a month. And as I usually do, I have left it until the last minute to get this one done. January 31st and I am writing the first blog of 2016. Hopefully the next one will happen a bit sooner than the last day of February. Part of my problem is finding things that I know enough about and that I think are interesting enough to actually write about. And I am not a writer. I passed Higher English, but that is the highest qualification I have in English. Who am I to write? But perhaps the point of this is to improve. If so, you may have to put up with 12 blogs that are utter rubbish this year! Let's see how I get on. Maybe my December offering will be a reflection on what I have managed to produce over the last 12 months.