Thoughts from the Sidelines One Week On

Thoughts from the Sidelines is just over a week old, and what a week it’s been. From its conception I had hoped that the sort of posts I envisaged writing would appeal to a few other people apart from the chap who resides in my garden shed who demands a hefty backhander for every page he views, and, to my great amazement, this has indeed transpired to be the case.

Within a week of being launched, Thoughts from the Sidelines has received approximately two-hundred and fifty hits, excluding admin visits (and this is allowing for the fact that my hits counter appeared to go on an extended holiday for a number of hours yesterday, much to my consternation).

Is it “bad form” to openly offer thanks to anyone who has dropped by this site? Of that I am uncertain, but I feel compelled to offer my thanks to everyone who has visited this site since its realisation as, without you, I would simply be speaking to myself – and, in light of the fact that I’ve been doing that for years, I have long since learned that when I start speaking to myself it’s a good time to go out for a beer and leave myself to it.

Of course, this site is nowhere comparable to the big-hitters in the blogging community, but this site is only young and, to be frank, it was never set up to supplement my salary in any shape or form – there will be no advertising here. This site was set up because I have a passion for trying to make news, in whatever form it takes, exciting. And I hope, in some way, and to some degree, this is proving to be the case.

Time will tell.

From here I will continue to buy out newsagent’s stands in a bid to find stories that may be of interest – our house looks like the national library – and, sat at this computer, in my corner of the world, the inevitable beer in hand, I will try to feed what I believe is interesting to anyone who stops by.

I would say that the only way is up, but I know that, unless I continue to work to provide content that interests people, this will not necessarily be the case. But if, and only if, the success of this weblog is a measure of the passion with which it is run, then I would hope that this is only the beginning.

Wherever you are in the world, thank you for visiting this site.