Hey! So, I have an announcement to make. This announcement is partly a placeholder for the fact that I meant to write something this week, but never quite managed to (the time when I was planning to write it I got distracted instead). But it is also news.
I’m going to change format a little bit, for a while. (Specific, I know.) I’ve been encountering the problem, ever since returning to Oxford, that I don’t actually have enough places to write about. This was always going to be an issue, when I think about it, because back when this blog started I was filling in the gaps when I didn’t go anywhere with places I’d been before I started the blog. I’ve now run out of such places, excluding the ones that were so long ago I don’t remember them well enough to write about.
The effect of this is to mean that every time I go to London (which I do, for non-blog reasons, quite frequently), I try and go somewhere to write about. Which is fun for me, but not necessarily interesting for you. Either that, or I come up to a weekend, and realise that I’ve run out of places to visit and have to plan my whole weekend around visiting, say, Witney. Usually on my own, because I can’t convince anyone else to come with me to Witney until I’ve written a blog post about it. This might be more interesting for you, but it’s less fun for me. (It also means I can’t take my friends back to places I’ve visited, because I wouldn’t get a blog post out of it.)
Anyway, the long and short of it is that trying to write a post about a new place every week stopped being fun. So I’m going to stop doing that.
I am going to try and post a new thing every Sunday, because this graphic on my WordPress stats page showing when I’ve posted is very satisfying:
Indeed, next week I may well post a regular-format post. But other Sundays you may get some random nonsense that I’m putting up just to get that sweet, sweet, blue square on the diagram.
Which means there’s a second announcement. For those of you coming from Facebook, I’m going to stop posting every post on there. Partly this is because I’m trying to wean myself off Facebook, and partly it’s because I don’t feel like some of the posts will necessarily merit a full post on my Timeline. But if you’d like to stay up-to-date with the blog, there are two options I have for you. Choose wisely.
The first is that you can now follow this blog on Twitter! I know, very modern, if “modern” is 2006. It’s linked in my sidebar, so you can find it easily.
Also in my sidebar is an email subscription box, so you can now get email notifications about new posts, if you want that retro nineties vibe. If you’re logged into WordPress, this appears as a different box letting you click a button to follow the blog, and I’m not sure what that does, so you may wish to log out first if you’d like to get the emails.
One last question you may have had: is this blog still about Escaping Oxford, and shouldn’t I change the name? Well, yes, and no—it’s still about Escaping Oxford, but I like to think of my blog (and for me, the act of writing it) as, in itself, an escape from Oxford. Just in a more philosophical sense.
And that’s it! I may well resume blogged about places full-time again, if I build up a sufficient backlog. In the meantime, hope you enjoy whatever I put out instead.
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