Monday 30 March 2015

Easy as ABC, my Blogging from A to Z Challenge reveal

Those wise and wonderful people who organise the Blogging from A to Z Challenge ran a day last week in which participants could reveal what they intended to write about over the 26 days of the challenge in April.

Guess whose good intentions to take part in the reveal fell by the wayside for reasons I can't really explain? For that I apologise, but I'm using my regular Monday slot to post an explanation of my plans for April.

People who take an obsessive interest in what I write in this blog may be aware that one of my favourite musicians of all time is the late Ian Dury. His music meant a lot to me when I was a teenager and I find that when I listen to it now I'm "all grown up" there is still much in it that I like.

One of my favourite songs performed by Ian Dury and the Blockheads is Reasons to be Cheerful, Part 3, which was a chart hit for them in the late 1970s and so "Reasons to be Cheerful" is my theme. An A to Z of things which cheer me up, some of which I suspect might look quite odd, but then it takes all sorts, as they say. Needless to say, it differs widely from the list Ian Dury put in his song.

Some people might know the single on which my theme is based, but for those who don't here it is. I hope you enjoy it, it's a fine piece of music.


So that's it until Wednesday, when as is the nature of the challenge we start with the letter A. What will it be? I should add that I will be encouraging you to comment which you can do at the foot of each posting. Also to make sure you never miss out on a posting you can sign up to get email alerts or become a follower of the blog. Both are easy things to do.

I hope to keep doing some general blog posts during April as well as the A to Z Challenge posts, so this coming month could be pretty busy. What's that saying, oh yes, I remember...The devil makes work for idle hands. How true, how true.

9 comments:

  1. Looking forward to it!
    Is there a tag everyone's using so that we can look up others taking part?

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    1. I hope you enjoy it. On Twitter look for #AtoZChallenge. If you click on the A to Z Challenge badge with the sunflower at the top of the blog it should take you to the Challenge blog. This lists and has links for EVERYONE taking part. There are a lot of us so there's plenty to see. Happy reading!

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  2. Looking forward to reading your A to Z. Considering taking part myself - there must be loads of catty things I could write about. XX

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    1. You should take part. You've still got about 24 hours to sign up. Click on the badget for the A to Z Challenge at the top and you can find out what to do. It's quite straightforward. Go on, do it, NOW!

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    2. Not "badget"! Click on the badge.

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  3. Never heard that Ian Drury song before, but it's always good to hear reasons for being cheerful. There are a lot of them.

    Arlee Bird
    A to Z Challenge Co-host
    Wrote By Rote

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    1. Ian Dury has a big back catalogue. I reckon you could probably do an A to Z Challenge on him.

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  4. "People who take an obsessive interest" hmmmmm are you accepting stalker applications?

    Anyway. Love the theme. Can't wait to see the oddities you come up with

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    1. No, not stalkers! Maybe just people whose priorities get slightly skewed.
      Glad you like the theme, there are one or two unusual entries, or maybe not. Maybe it's those priorities again.

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