Eleventh Blog Anniversary!
Posted by Fiona Nevile in Cottage tales | 63 comments
Eleven years have passed since the very first post on this blog.
Looking back I can see that my involvement with the blog was an amazing journey. Filling my small world with new ideas, people and experiences. I travelled far beyond the kitchen table where I wrote each day. It was one of the greatest adventures that I have ever experienced.
When I sat down to write that first post I had no idea of that promising future. The slow switch from pottering along on auto pilot to gradually learning how to actually fly the plane.
And of course if you can fly that plane you need to choose where you want to go. And there’s the rub.
I realised that I was in a place that I didn’t want to be. I didn’t know where I wanted to go. I was completely lost.
So over four years ago I cut Danny loose, stopped blogging and hid away.
I missed Danny, missed the blog.
I must admit that I couldn’t find that pilot’s license for a while and drifted about feeling angry and sad.
The chickens gradually died off and I was left with just a lonely cockerel. The min pins died too. I took in an Olympian Mouser Cat that was finding it hard to find a forever home and he was quickly joined by two four year old dogs that needed care.
Oh the amazing power of animal therapy! We were all damaged and needed unconditional love.
So on this eleventh aniversary of the birth of the Cottage Smallholder blog I’d like to introduce you to two of my best friends – Fanny and Ruby. They are posing in their basket which is located on the human dog basket.
Hopefully you will hear more about them in the future as I am now going to start blogging again.
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Hi Fiona
I’ve just found your blog today having searched for ‘How to make a willow wreath’, which is great; then got side tracked & have spent hours looking through lots of your articles & loving them – the whole site is so inspiring it will be great if you do manage to keep it up.
Wishing you all the very best,
Lorna
We’ve both been on a journey over the past eleven years. I’ve just found you’re blog again, pleased to be reunited.
So pleased that I just searched for ‘rosehip syrup’ and your Blog appeared. Looking forward to following your further adventures and wishing you powered flight!
Fiona! You are back! I am so pleased. I often think about you and wonder how you are getting on … remembering especially the CSH get-together in your garden. I am really looking forward to hearing from you regularly again. Happy eleventh anniversary, and hello Fanny and Ruby — you can’t beat animals for helping you through hard times.
We are just awaiting the arrival of our rescue cat; he will be a form of therapy too. Delighted you are blogging again, Fiona. I look forward to hearing more of life with Fanny and Ruby. And anything else you care to share 🙂
I love your blog and it excites me to have you back. Please keep up the good work. I enjoy reading about your pets and your gardens. Very different from most lives here in the US.
I’m ecstatic you’re back! Missed your thoughts and comments so much! Like others, I’ve been checking regularly hoping you’d be back! Now you are! Yay! Animals are the best therapy! Well done!
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So glad that you’re back Fiona.
Welcome back. I kept checking, just in case you blogged again. Looking forward to whatever you write about.
And about bloody time too! Welcome back Fiona.