Back to blogging

I was quite shocked to see that I've only written one blog entry in the last month. I also realise that the previous entry about Israel, may seem to a little strange to the people who don't receive my e.newsletters.

I started blogging, back in February as a way of posting my photos, which up to then, I had usually send as an attachment to my newsletters. However, the Internet in Cape Town and Zambia is rather slow and sometimes unpredictable, and I had huge diffculties attaching any document to an email. Hence the blog. It was also a great way of writing more frequently, more of a diary, which is what I understand a blog to be: a log on the internet, which can be shared with other users. I had toyed with the idea of stopping my newsletters, but when I mentioned the thought, I was asked to keep writing the weekly emails, as they both provide more of a summary of recent events and can be printed off for those without internet to read.

So, I have kept both going for that last nine months. Sometimes I feel it has been successful, as I have chosen different topics to highlight in each, or I have used the blog to focus on one particular events, and of course match to photos. It has also provided an opportunity to talk about the photos. I enjoy that part, especially finding unusual things to photograph and chat about.

The sixth of the month is a little late to join National Blogging Month, but I certainly intend to post more regularly from now on.

So what about the Israel thing?

We travelled to England on 7th October and joined others from Christian Vision, from around the world, in Israel on 11th October. It was the two-yearly International Conference, but also a sight-seeing tour of the Holy Land. We returned to UK on 21st October, and then flew back to Cape Town on 25th October. Our time in UK was useful to catch up with family, although it was very brief and rather too hectic.

In Israel I took far too many photographs, and over the past week have been sorting through them, trying to decide which ones to put on a Flickr account. I did try posting some the other night, but they crashed and Andy has been too busy to help me out, so far. So, at present I am dithering, somewhat, not sure what to post here and what to post on Flickr.

In the meantime, life moves on and I am wondering whether to just get back to talking about life here in Cape Town - after all the blog title is "Adventures in Africa"!

So after all that rambling, you'll have to wait and see what I post tomorrow!