Its been another interesting year! In fact the last couple of years have been incredibly hard, but I continue to look for the humor in things however macarbre or bizzare, (I've been reliably informed this is in fact called sanity).

I'm glad that Moblog seems to be well and that all my old friends are still here or returning. I still prefer this place to anywhere else on the internet.

I wish you all a healthy, hopeful, peaceful and interestingly enjoyable year. Hope to see more of you all here in 2012. Lou xxx

Suicide in the Trenches
(published in the Cambridge Magazine, 23 February 1918)

I knew a simple soldier boy
Who grinned at life in empty joy,
Slept soundly through the lonesome dark,
And whistled early with the lark.

In winter trenches, cowed and glum
With crumps and lice and lack of rum,
He put a bullet through his brain.
No one spoke of him again.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.

Seigfried Sassoon

what is that............?

Thi....s is pro....babl....y ho.....w I see............. THE wo..............rld.

LOVE ;-)

kiss Kiss..............XXXXXX

The end of a decade............. and last year, such a bad year. Bye, Bye.
Here's to a new decade !!

Thought for 2009/2010

Bit of an understatement, but its been a very difficult year all round for pretty much everyone I know, including Moblog.
Its quieter here than it used to be (but so are the roads!). Mobloggers have been called away to other areas of their lives, not just lost interest because of the technical issues, though I know it has been very frustrating at times.

But other things have effected the ebb and flow of Moblog too. The 'original founding fathers' have found themselves having to concentrate on real world committments and lives, something we have all had to do, perhaps this year more than ever before.

I've chosen to see this time, in a way that is familiar to me............... it's like children (ahem) leaving to travel or go to university...... they will be back.... and they will hopefully have shared some of those experiences with us (those who are more 'fixed' here)and that actually makes this place all the better.

Just like a family there have been some fallings out, that is regrettable and a shame, but time an all that.............

There has been a good core of people who have kept the home fire's burning..... Twiglet, Craft, Candyman, ~R~, Shitake, Mara, Cariadus, Earthlad, mysteritmo, wendle, George, Caine, Viv et al, the mods who, did'nt ask to be....... (or not to be.....) and I'm gonna shoot myself in the foot here because undoubtedly I am going to have missed someone really important, so please if I have forgive me and send me a punch! :O

Thankfully there have been alot of newcomers, too who like us!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plenty has gone on behind the scene's but as in every Grrreeeat, Shakespearean play you dont get to see that till a later act.

2009........Friends not with us any more, health issues, job issues, money, family, friends.....those are the reasons most of us have been away.

Life takes many different twists and turns (preaching to the converted here!) The fact that there were those among us who felt so aggrieved by the problems, actually shows us their personal investment in this place. When we thought it was under attack, alot of us stood up to shout and hopefully be heard. Yeah I know its just the internet......... but Moblog is'nt, it's something else.

I'll be honest, there was I time when even I thought Moblog was in its deathroes (check the spelling ?)but actually its starting to re-emerge with experience, knowledge, a fresh look and of course (fingers crossed...... A Great Developer!!!!!!)

So, to each and every one of you, I sincerely wish you a happy, healthy, prosperous, rich, rewarding, interesting and wonderful 2010.

Lou X X X