Sometimes you get so used to something that you don't see it anymore. A thicket becomes overgrown and full of dead, or near-dead, branches and then you finally notice that it's become impenetrable. So it comes time to get in there and do some sawing and cutting to let the light and to wake up the trees.
Much the same thing has happened with some of my links. I have a lot of links; it's quite nice to see how things are happening the world over. But in such a dense mass some links, for whatever reasons; personal hiatuses, operational reasons or sheer fecklessness, go dormant.
Well, in a fit of spring cleaning, I swear it's not my usual behaviour, just ask the commander. I've gone in there with my heavy-duty pruning shears and lopped and cut away the silent. But, true to my form, I can't throw them away. So, much like the branches that I cut in the garden and the allotment I put them into a pile, as they'll be useful for something one day, if only for insects and such like.
So I've created a section on the blog for "Resting Blogs" you never know, they might, like a neglected plant in a pot, spring into life again.
Also it has been salutary to see some of the blogs that bristled with enthusiasm just dry up. But that may not be a bad thing, maybe the authors are so tied up in their growing that writing up a blog is the last thing to be done. Fair enough. Though, it is possible to accuse me of a bit of tardiness in writing up this blog but I try to write it up every six months whether it needs it or not.
It was all prompted by my not being able to add a blog to my world of diggers list. So there is a finite amount of space. But I've fitted it in now. So welcome to "Out Of My Shed."
Feel like I need a lie down now, some early mince pies and a glass of sherry.
