About me: Writing for the sake of it

I enjoyed writing the posts about my mother and I want to continue blogging, but what should I write about? I have many interests but few in areas where there aren’t already hundreds of other bloggers with better insights than I could possible manage. I can’t imagine there are many readers out there in the blogosphere who would want to know anything about the obscure French blood bank management system that I’m trying to adapt to manage stem cell procurement, processing and transplant in the National Blood Service, and even fewer with the slightest inclination to read about the international coding systems for immunotherapy products applied to barcodes. I need to consider who my audience might be and why they might actually want to read what I write.

What I will probably attempt is a rambling stream of consciousness about everything that grabs my attention. There will be bits about UK and international politics, society, pets, country life, being British, music, football (soccer), history, films, books, mental health and about being me. There will be no further mentions of barcodes and I’m very unlikely to mention The only way is Essex, Geordie/Jersey Shore, X-factor or Big Brother (except in an Orwellian political context). I don’t take myself too seriously these days so there will be self-deprecating humour and I won’t fail to point out the ridiculous pomposity of those who do take themselves too seriously.

Being me:

50 something, born in Cambridge, work for NHS Blood and Transplant and have done for 30 years, married to Justine, live in the countryside north-east of Bristol with our three (currently teenage) children, 2 dogs, 4 cats and 6(ish) hens. I am happy occasionally and will frequently laugh at things, but generally I’m socially awkward and uncommunicative due to a lifelong problem recognising people in the wrong environment. If we meet in the fields around my house I’m more likely to recognise your dog than you and I do apologise in advance.