KiwiCat's updates

Way back circa 2005 I set up my first ever blog as a web 2.0 exercise my team were working through. At the time I chose the somewhat unimaginative name KiwiCat. Later on, I kept a different blog while I lived in Wellington, to keep my Auckland-based friends and family up with what I was doing. I continued it for awhile after moving to Whitianga, mostly for the benefit of my elderly grandmother who couldn’t easily come to see us. After she passed, it lapsed and I’ve been blog-free… until now.

The fact is I have a diverse and geographically dispersed group of friends and family out there who are interested in what’s going on since my cancer diagnosis. And while I love chatting with all of you individually, keeping you all up to date with the latest news is going to be difficult. I thought about using Facebook… except I hate it and not everyone is on it… so I’ve settled for returning to the good old blog. I could have revived my last one, but LiveJournal isn’t the friendly place it used to be so here I am on WordPress starting fresh.

The choice to use a blog is somewhat ironic, since with my broken finger typing is currently tiresome, so expect some short posts at times. Or ones filled with mistakes when I’ve used the computer’s dictate function in a hurry and haven’t corrected the inevitable errors.

I don’t know how often I’ll be posting. The way this has gone so far has involved a lot happening in short bursts, with long periods of waiting between. But I’ll keep it up to date and give my husband editing rights so he can update if I can’t. He already has a WordPress account for his model railway club, so that should be easy to organise.

I also don’t know how many of you there will be bothering to read this. It’s probably not going to make for thrilling reading. Still, we’ll give it a go. Go ahead and pass on the link to anyone you think will be interested. I may at some point need to change some of the settings if trolls or AI-bots get into the comments, but for now I’ll just see how it goes.