It’s great that you’ve been there on the stay at home dad thing, you know how tough the kitchen table work environment can be. I guess that all along I may have been telling myself I can’t do it, when maybe the opposite is true.

I totally understand what you mean about blogs and their authors. For the longest time I only used to comment on people’s blogs as I didn’t have a blog of my own. I kind of got hooked into their stories and would drop in regularly to keep up with the conversations. I felt a bit like a stalker as sometimes I wouldn’t even leave a comment.

Thank you for saying all that you said, but the absolute best thing you could have said was what you said at the end about the SEO etc. I am so pleased that you noticed. I’ve worked hard at it and not in a million years did I expect anyone to notice it, let alone mention it, so, thank you Hadi.

Cheers, Andy.

I agree with you on the social isolation front – I had a long spell as a stay at home dad, working from the kitchen table with with 2 young children running around (can’t imagine what 4 would be like!)

Twitter didn’t exist then (there were forums and chat rooms only) but I found my release in popping up to the village pub in the evenings.

I quickly grew bored of the misogyny, racism and generally extremist views of the typical lads night out and so disappeared from the scene (I guess this just didn’t fit with my values).

It’s why I don’t use twitter socially.

It’s why I much prefer blogs and commenting on them.

For me, the difference between twitter and blogs is analagous to banter at a bar and an evening spent chatting to an old friend.

With a blog, the author has time and space to let their character, thoughts and feelings be expressed fully and over time, as a reader, you come to think of the author as friend (if that’s not too creepy!).

I worry that, over time, the anonymity and lack of accountability that social media affords, will do more harm than good to society.

Apologies for the rant!

Hadi

P.S. I’m enjoying your use of on site SEO with page interlinking, use of keyphrases, etc!