Saturday, 22 November 2008

So, I hear you've got a blog

Well, yes. I do have a blog. It's a bit like a pet given to an ungrateful child. Nobody pays attention to it until it comes up the child's humph to inspect it after weeks or months of neglect and there is the empty space where the cage used to be.

"Where's the rabbit?" asks the child, who can't remember the poor creature's name.

"The rabbit's dead," says a harrassed parent, with some bluntness.

"When did it die?"

"Months ago and you didn't notice."

"Oh." The bottom lip is quivering at this point. The child's. The parent is too pissed off to bother with quivery-lipped infants.

"It was always me who had to clean it out and see that it was fed," says the parent. "Don't pretend now that you cared for it at all."

This blog is much like that long-forgotten childhood pet. It comes to mind only when the owner is completely bored or is prompted by someone who asks, "I hear you've got a blog." I have indeed got a blog. It's just not very well.

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