A Time of Magic

Cleaning out your colon is one of those things that seems like a good idea.

After all, there’s all kinds of, how can one put it?, basically pre-toilet material up there. It’s your internal sewer, isn’t it?

Well, in some ways it certainly is. That’s where the stuff sits before it reaches the toilet after all. However, a lot of it isn’t just sitting there – it’s being processed with lots of useful things being taken out and absorbed into your body. So colon cleansers like colonetix need to be careful that they don’t clean everything out. Some of it consists of bacteria that are required to make things like vitamin K (an essential part of blood clotting) that your body needs and which aren’t supplied by way of your food.

Yes, there’s gunge, and, yes, it’s not a bad idea to clear it out now and again but be mindful of some side-effects and be sure to take supplements to make up for some of what was cleared out for a while afterwards.

The 4oth birthday seems to have more of a significance than any of the other “oh” birthdays largely for historical reasons: it represented the half-way mark for one’s life.

However, when you’re looking for 40th bday gifts for her, none of that matters. It’s a difficult one to call as women rarely want their age bandied about and still less so when it’s the 40th with it’s feeling of “over the hill”.

Best to steer clear of anything highlighting the actual age I think!

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.