Whether you arrived here by accident or design, if it’s your first visit or you’ve lost count… Welcome to my website!
I started blogging on July 5, 2003 when I posted every Saturday on Stewart Bloor’s Angling Journal.
Since then, my internet presence has evolved to the point where I share every day and, although fishing is still a big part of my online posting, it’s now much wider in terms of content.
Hence, Welcome To My World and Blogging Life’s Journey.
When I was younger, like so many children from that era, I would keep a hand-written diary.
Decades later, my blog is the modern, technological, broadened, adult version but essentially still the same.
People from my generation will be familiar with the photograph album and how pleasing it was to open its pages and reflect on the memories within.
That’s exactly what my website is, all these years on. It’s where I share my thoughts, experiences and encouragements on a daily basis and, even though I’m now in my sixties, still making memories to look back on.
My blog posts are two-fold in terms of purpose. Firstly, I write for myself and they’re personal. Secondly, I share for a wider, anonymous audience, in the hope that they will challenge, encourage and inspire.
Having been online since the dying embers of the last millennium, my first encounters with social media was a fishing Yahoo group and Friends Reunited.
Then came Facebook, forums, Instagram, Twitter etc.
As my own website became more important to me, my interest in all the aforementioned platforms decreased, especially as they (like society in general) have become more toxic at worst and time-consuming at best.
Therefore, it’s true to say that this (my website) is my one and only personal corner of the internet.
The only other platform I now use is YouTube, and that’s just to host my videos, which are then embedded in blog posts.
Even then, I’ve disabled comments on YouTube, which is a time-management thing though, rather than any issues with anyone.
I do have a guest book on this site though, so although I am more media than social, I’m not an internet hermit and I do welcome interaction.
Stewart Bloor