Blogging- 'This way madness lies'

Blogging is one of those things which seems to have passed me by completely. It’s been plastered all over the media for several years now and yet I’ve never knowingly actually read a blog in my life, let alone written one. 

So when, whilst attempting to procrastinate wildly to avoid doing things I was meant to be doing, the thought occurred to me to start one, I realised that I needed to do some research on the topic. What exactly is a ‘blog’? Wikipedia (the website to which conciseness is an alien concept) was able to tell me the history of blogging, its political and cultural impact and a plethora of other interesting but equally useless facts. It failed however to tell me what I should actually write in a ‘blog’ (the word sounds to me like the name of some unsavoury creature you would expect to find lurking in the sewers), so I decided to do what comes naturally and just ramble on until I run out of things to say, whilst watching the last vestiges of my free time and sanity bid me farewell and slip quietly away, never to be seen again.

I’m therefore most likely to be doing this all wrong and I expect I have already broken thousands of blog conventions with this single post, but who cares? I'm actually almost enjoying writing this. It could even turn out to be fun: watch this space...