A Time of Magic

Will I ever get an audience is a question that I’m sure a lot of bloggers ask themselves when they’re starting out in blogging.

The problem is that almost all blogs run into the sand within about three months so getting through that barrier is critical. They stop for all kinds of reasons naturally. Some find that blogging just isn’t for them and that explains a whole lot of the abandoned blogs on the various free blogging networks. Others start a very specialised blog and when whatever they’re writing about finishes, so does their blog which obviously explains a lot of abandoned travel blogs and university based blogs. Most confusing are the blogs which seem to be powering ahead and which just stop one day for no apparent reason at all.

One category must be the experimental blogs or at least those which turn into experimental ones. For instance, some years ago I started On a Postcard with the idea that it would be a collection of very short blog entries on the two broad themes of “daily life” and “something to ponder”. To be honest the idea just sprang out of the availability of what seemed like a great domain name and thus wasn’t a great reason to kick off a blog. Well, as you might expect from such a beginning, the blog ran into the sand after a while. However, interestingly one post managed to pick up a lot of traffic because google picked up the image on it as a featured image. Anyway, that set me thinking about it and towards the end of last year I revived the blog as an experiment into attracting hits via images and also of intensifying the hits by way of writing further articles based on the search terms that the blog was attracting.

How’s it doing? Well, it’s only been going properly for a couple of months now but already it’s getting a steady stream of hits relating to relationships for reasons which escape me and for cold weather clothing for seemingly sensible reasons. So, I’ve written a short sequence of posts on each of those areas to see what happens.

If this approach is a success I’ll roll it out to my other blogs in due course but ’tis early days yet.

Even if you’ve put a lot of thought into the idea of having a tattoo before considering things like the design and placement, it’s still possible that at some point in the future that you will want to think about removing it.

But what does a tattoo remover actually get up to?

The problem is that a tattoo is basically designed to be permanent. It’ll certainly change over the years as your skin changes but the ink will remain within your skin essentially forever. Or, in short, it ain’t going to be an easy thing to remove.

So what the tattoo removers do is basically to erase the whole area of the design. Since the ink is within your skin this means that it’s generally going to leave a scar broadly overwriting the are where the tattoo used to be. Thus, small tattoos are easier to get rid of than large ones and the young lady’s tattoo shown here wouldn’t realistically be possible to remove.

Definitely a case of think a lot then think some more before deciding to get that tattoo.

The problem with sleeping problems is that it’s often very much a family problem with one non-sleeper keeping at least one other person awake because of it.

Which, of course, means that there’s even more of an interest in sleep aids than there would be normally. But do they work? Well, yes, but that’s not the problem. The issue is that when you can’t sleep there’s generally a reason behind it, most commonly some form of stress leading to your brain not closing down normally. It’s that problem that you need to look at as sleeping aids aren’t a long term solution.