It's been a whole year since I started this little project. Originally this was going to just be a place I could drop in my travel photos and experiences for Joe & Joanne Public to find out about far flung places, but I became sidetracked (just about the time I split up with Lucy), and this blog was the product of those first few days. It's just like 'The Real World' without the early 90s haircuts.

I think back then I was probably a little more serious, a little more careful about linking and a little clueless about getting the CSS (design) to work on browsers other than Firefox and Internet Explorer.

It's now something that I am told a lot of people read (although sometimes the evidence is hard to find), so, as a special birthday treat, I would really, really appreciate it, whoever you are, that you leave a comment on this article just with your location and your age. It can remain nameless (just write anonymous or something like that in the name box), just there is only so much my website statistics can tell me. Think of it as a blog birthday present; and I don't care if your a first time reader or a die hard reader either - all contributions welcome - whether you have read this today or fifty years down the line...

With regard to the day-to-day running of life - things got a bit hectic yesterday, but I think I can see some blue sky ahead. I managed to shape up the majority of the Touchline Soccer website template, but was devastated to see just as I was about to sign off for the evening that the code was half missing, and I swore out loud. I finally found a backup, but it nearly finished me off.

Olivia has made good progress with the bag for the major project which cheered me up. Devito went and go his second tattoo done in as many weeks, the little Wanyard nutter. Looks good though. Sean came back up yesterday too and reports are coming in that Swan hasn't done anything in two weeks. Makes a change [smell the sarcasm].

The last working day of the week means I'm on full kilter... here goes...