Today is my third bloggiversary. And on this day, at 600 posts, it is time to continue elsewhere. I’m due a change, and a change may do me good. My blogging will now be done at petescully.com. Then in the summer of 2006 I discovered sketchblogs, where people would post what was in their sketchbook from that particular day. The first I found was Jana Bouc’s blog, and it inspired me to start using watercolours in my sketches. Since then I’ve painted and sketched more and more, drawing inspiration from some of the prolific and incredible sketchbloggers out there. I was astonished that people could go out and draw something new every day (such as in one mile from home), until I found that I was doing that too. So this went from being a blog where I wrote about what was all around me, to one where I drew everything that was around me, like illustrations to my life (of which you would only really get small glimpses). And I can see that through sketchblogging, I’ve improved enormously. And now in 2008 I have become a parent! Life has changed a lot. All the while, I mostly didn’t want to leave this blog because it would mean losing the “.co.uk” bit at the end…it would mean I really have left Britain behind. Well that’s just silly. Perhaps, if I get really homesick, I’ll just go ahead and start petescully.co.uk or something, or pierrescully.fr if I miss France, or whatever.
auf wiedersehen, pete
No one particular reason. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time, I actually set up the other blog more than two years ago, but decided to stay at 20six when so many others left it. I like 20six’s blogs (I found it much better than, say, blogger), but the blog-outs have been worrying me a bit though. I just want to stop here and continue elsewhere, leaving this as three years of webloggery. In fact, I won’t be leaving the 20six blogs completely, as I will be using my secondary blog (pietscully) as a kind of experimental area for various side-projects. It may be the pete fringe-blog. (It isn't actually the only one.) But this one will stay as it is, frozen in time. A book doesn’t die because the author stops writing it, and nor does this blog.
I'll think of the new blog as ‘Volume 2’.
Story: I started this blog three years ago today (April 9) when I was overwhelmed with coursework and medieval research during my MA. I got a creative burst and found new ways to vent it. I found 20six because The Vessel started a blog there taking photos of the shadows on the dining room wall; I started one too, because in those days you had to have one in order to comment on one. I wrote the odd thought and thought odd, and every now and then posted the odd drawing, from my damp flat in hornsey lane. It became my ‘Preparing to Move to America’ blog; and when I flew out to California in September 05 it became my “Living in America” blog and a way for my family and friends back home to catch up on how I saw this slightly mental land (see “From the US of Eh" ) And I would read other blogs from back in the UK to remind me of the slightly mental country I left behind (blogs such as Scotland-based Red Queen, now vanished, and the Switzerland-based Brit of Don’t Mention the Skiing, now in Germany ).
So... thank you to all who have been reading this blog, and to those who have been so kind as to link to me in your own blogs. I’ll be over at petescully.com, doing the same sketches of the same trees and the same streets and saying the same puns and complaining about the same presidents (until january, of course) and everything.
And if I get bored, well I might just come right back here.
9.4.08 22:55
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