My first blog experience was years ago when one of my childhood friends was dying of cancer and she wrote her feelings down in a blog. It was absolutely fascinating, amazing, insightful and very emotional. Such passion and honesty, it may be still be on the web somewhere but it is definitely worth a look. Google ‘sharkyandwillow blog’ and you should be able to see it. Cancer is all around us isn’t it? Young, old, rich or poor we can’t seem to escape. This is why we must live for the day, the moment and treasure what we have. The doctors are doing amazing things and treatments are improving but it is still a disease that is ‘terminal’. Terminal: does this mean we have reached our destination on our journey as the film suggests, our ‘Final Destination’? I haven’t watched it; I am not a lover of horror movies, or the news for that matter. I have nightmares at the smallest things and would prefer to live in a bubble as much as possible. But we all have to face life and I do that, I don’t hide; I just choose not to watch the ten o’clock news! Six o’clock is much more censored and safer.... So, back to blogs, I have looked at a few but only ‘sharkyandwillow’ gripped me and I read it as it was posted until it was posted no more. Imagine what that girl Ella (Sharky) could have done if she’d been able to live. She would have been a phenomenon, she was so talented. What are blogs then? Just ruminations of people who can’t express themselves elsewhere? Public diaries for all to see? A showcase for fashion, food and lifestyle through the eyes of someone else? Another selling platform for products? A new way of advertising? People have always had an obsession with diaries so it makes sense that we all want to see what other people think, feel, wear, buy, do. I think this is what they are; a platform enabling the public to nose a little deeper into other peoples’ lives and maybe buy into them physically or mentally. I am very new to all this and slow on the uptake as I look at others who have been doing this for years; whilst having children and dealing with life and all it throws at them. I think it’s a great thing to do and I will give it a go, my best shot, I will try not to bore you, and go off on tangents too much...