Yes, my blog is two years old today! I can hardly believe it. When I first tentatively dipped my toe into the world of blogging on November 14th, 2003, I never thought I would be able to keep it going for a month, let alone two years. To be honest, I did the first couple of entries with a LOT of difficulty. HTML and I are not really the best of friends at any time and after many revisions, wrong tags and accidental deletions, tears and tantrums, the air in my apartment was literally blue when I finally pressed the publish button on that first entry.

I then immediately wrote to our ever helpful and patient webmistress Kate, telling her that it was simply all too hard, I was too old and too stupid to learn about computers and maybe I should give it up. That is when she came forward with words of encouragement that helped me to keep going.

After I had, with a lot of her help, mastered the art of adding pictures and editing entries, I knew exactly how I wanted my blog to be and have tried my best to accomplish it. I wanted it to be bright, friendly, welcoming and full of miscellaneous bits and pieces on all kinds of things. I wanted it to be like a favourite magazine, something people could pick up, sit back and enjoy. Of course, just like a magazine, you cannot please all of the people all of the time. Some like one thing, others like another, but on the whole I have tried to vary it from week to week.

I hope that in the past two years I have made you smile, laugh, or choke back a tear. That I have pricked your own memories, given you ideas and a small glimpse into my world.