Skating away

Just a note before we begin, they may be a break in the other blogs as the phone line and internet is being changed over at the weekend as I'm not super human being capable of writing tons of blogs to cover the gaps and scheduling them.

School has now resumed after the Chrismas and New Year break although it was extended by a day on Monday as we had quite a bit of snow and so school buses and that were not working although my local combined infants and juniors, yes the one I went to myself, was actually open.

Then, the caretaker for that lives just around the corner and most of the staff are fairly nearby while sometimes high school staff may live ten miles or more than the schools location.

I did get out in the snow not least with bin duties and the like so I was well wrapped up and shod to tackle the snow and ice which helps given I'm not good on my feet generally never mind with this.

Classic grey turn over socks are a thing with me not least with maroon or blue stripes  so maybe I might look at finding a few more from various suppliers.

A year in review

 It is the New Year today so we'll take a look around the year and the blog as it is in some ways the odd one of the bunch.

We started a long time ago very much from scratch so there was no history brought over from previous social media that had limited blogging options or bits of short term blogs that just went rather like the Wordpress but Tumblr connected ones did in 2020.

It became in some ways what it was I wanted and to limited degree succeeded at on Tumblr before they were removed in the great purges rather more an an exercise in sorting out what my sense of boyhood was, how that still runs through modern life and the part some measure from the past play a part in my life.

So it tends to be more experience and emotionally lead rather than around appearences, presentation and personal interests, the glue that holds the other parts together that are explored much more on other blogs.

2024 started from the events of 2023, not least the loss of Mum, the slow resumption of everyday life sorting out messy family relationships and getting away as that eternal boy.

We did work around getting presentational styles more aligned with the out of school and holiday habits blending in better where you were likely to encounter bio-boys and adults as much at other times I was and remain very much old school.

The forum continued to run bring in fresh people as Misterpoll, where many of us originated from the School Shorts poll threads came to an effective end as upgrades in their software appeared to broken the original Misterpoll threads although interest there had more or less finished with less than a handful of regular posters when they could even be bothered to post.

We outlasted it, being able to talk about things more "adult" sites could not permit that were more centred around just being that boy and past lives.

The one thing we need to concentrate more on handling disagreements and where people may see things that are not intended as that can impact the preparedness of others to contribute.