Morgana, I'm afraid your blog is a bit boring

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Morgana, I\'m afraid your blog is a bit boring

Sorry. Bit dull to read about how you got up and had breakfast (ran out of eggs so just cereal heyho) and hung about until dave and julie turned up, bit late as they were stuck in traffic on the A12 (when WILL those roadworks be finished i wonder) and were all ready to go when -gah- the starter motor jammed, dammit. Fixed eventually wth a bit of help from Nick who was around (thanks Nick!) although by then it was 2pm. But still time fr a pleasant spin around the bay, back on the berth at (still quite early) dusk 4:40pm.

See? Dull innit. Oh yes it is and it's poor buggers like me has to read it. Jeez.

First off, don't mention any meals or waking unless while you were doing the boring thing, something really interesting happened.

Much more intresting to read summink like New year's cruise with Dougie, the local chainsaw lunatic. Wel, ok, he's got a chainsaw. Actually, heh, it's my chainsaw. Or tell something else unique (or as unique as possible) about dougie.

And so on. I mean, telling us about meals and waking up times and going to bed times and that there was some crummy weather but then some sunny days is dull because that's the wallpaper of life for anyone. WHEREAS none of us know Dougie or whatever your other mates are called. We don't eant to know if he's 5'10" but we do want to know if he's a midget or a giant. The out of the ordinary is what interesting writing is all about - something worth pointing out, no? I bet you wouldn't bother telling anyone in the pub half the stuff in the blog. So what DO you talk about then? The internal workings of your mind, the quirky details that make your day between getting up and going to bed completely different from everyone else's.

Well, um, i've obviously been a bit horrid here, so i oughta tell you what i've done today. Which is, erm, change the gas, quite a mission as the gas bottle weighs a ton. Well, okay, 25kilos. The previous bottle was red, and the guy sez he's only got brown. Hm, what the heck, it butagaz on it, bound to be fine, I hope. I had a blue bottle once, and that was fine, and brown matches the cushion fabric as well. And then i stopped off at the wifi caff and ripped into morgana's blog. Hm, not easy is it? Well whatever, at least i didn't mention what i had for breakfast, which was croissant. Damn, now i've just mentioned what i had for breakfast...

So anyway, sorry about this. You could always just ignore it all, but perhaps change your tagline to "Bored? If not, read my blog!" which is *nearly* what is says at first glance anyway, which is why i read it, and then ripped in. After all, it was you started it using the word "bored", see?

Actually, perhaps ditch the word "bored?" cos otherwise others will read it and think hmm i'm stil pretty bored, really. Yes, praps that's the problem - the reasder is promissed too much i think. I mean, a blog would have to be incredibly rippy to un-bore someone, really, unles you were spiderman-type and even then you'd have to be good wth words, to stop it sounding a bit heyho, usual thing, swinging through the city rescuing people again today, got up at 8:15 and had some power bars etc etc, just like the films which also got boring.

hope this helps
 
Re: Morgana, I\'m afraid your blog is a bit boring

I think that's an infamous slur on a blog which I read religiously! (I must be bored!)
 
Re: Morgana, I\'m afraid your blog is a bit boring

Dear Matt,
notice that a 100 views and no one comments. Its getting like that round here. ooh, look mad bloke better not say anything, let it pass, then it will sink off the page quicker, ha ha.
An aastute observation I have to agree, haven't read it, but deffo will now. BTW, I was at the New years Day brekkie, and nothing ran out, but we we did have bacon carbon(ara). lashings of it tho, much required considering champer whisky beer fest previous eve.

I started a blog, and couldn't think of anything super man to put in it, so its empty. maybe thats it - leave it empty so people can imagine the whizzo time you are having, and how the dear readers life is a crushing bore.

So, Morgana needs to sharpen the pencil a bit then. Not sure we have brown cylinders round here, except on the pavement, and quite a bit smaller,and squashy.

Suggest you go and critique Guapa's blog too, sure he would appreciate your New York Times Theater (sic) Critic stylee writing.

Gissa a go of yer boat next time its in the Uk?
 
Re: Morgana, I\'m afraid your blog is a bit boring

Carbon(ara) hah!

Not sure if/when boat will be in uk. And anyway, feels bit slow at 6knots and um, not incredibly yeehah wooshy at 10knots either, really. Quite rippy noises from under the hulls surfing in high teens, that's quite buttock clenchy but at no point do you feel you're fine tunishly helming the thing, hence my references to freight trains. Or did you mean you wanted to use the bogs? Okay.
 
Re: Morgana, I\'m afraid your blog is a bit boring

I haven't changed my gas for quite a while so I do have a brown cylinder. Rust brown really.

What do you advise for a ripping brekkie?

I was thinking along the lines of flash fried parrot, stuffed with cherries in kirsch.
 
Re: Morgana, I\'m afraid your blog is a bit boring

yeah, you sortim out. Perhaps all blogs could be subbed/rewritten by tk. Especially any mealtimes.

Is magic sailors blog still on line? That was ace.
 
Re: Morgana, I\'m afraid your blog is a bit boring

Dear Matt, besides demonstrating the loneliness, melancholy and depression of your current desperate situation aimlessly drifting back and forth across the pond, your attempting to read a blog written by a senior IT bloke is sheer lunacy, perhaps sufficient to have you sectioned. Morgana is a head techie person, educated and disciplined in the systematic monitoring, measurement and management of computers and computer bods. Chronological sequence and event detail are vitally important. What were you expecting? Clive Cussler? You would have to be mad to read the blog of an IT expert.

Ah! All is explained.

But you are quite correct. Not enough piccies.

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Re: Morgana, I\'m afraid your blog is a bit boring

I read the bloggy stuff before Matt-the-circular-sailor chipped in with the lit critique and what impressed me most was your defo action plan in the event of everything going south- A man who knows his priorities and can carry the family with him ! I went sailing during the last recession,best thing I could have done looking back..
So, gets my vote. (Mind you I was quite impressed with one early post by MR Matt Bend-it-like-Beckham when he indicated that the time had come to sell up, shades of the last recession) !
 
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