Virgin Blogger

So as you can see this is my first intrepid adventure into the blogosphere. I would warn you all not to hold your breath; this might take me a while to get the hang of.

When deciding to create a blog, it’s always difficult to determine the style and tone you’re going to go for. As a PR Masters student should I be going down the academic route and blogging interesting and topical PR articles, or as a 22 year old do I go for a lighter hearted and fun blog, or can I combine the two? Instead of defining the tone of the blog at the outset, I have decided to just go with it and let it instead be a place for me to write my inane musings.

When I decided that tonight would be the night that I started this blog, I text my Mum to get her advice on what might be an interesting topic. Take a look at the reply I got back…

Don’t worry; my Mum isn’t some faecally-obsessed, Gillian McKeith wannabe! That fatuous suggestion actually came from my darling baby brother who managed to intercept my Mums phone and give his own suggestion…whatever floats his boat! (Little did he know that his chosen topic would actually feature on my first blog.)

But it got me thinking that you could literally write about anything you have a keen interest in… I’ll keep you posted on when my brother brings out his blog! Unfortunately for me I have no keen interest in anything, just a mediocre interest in everything.

I am not unequivocally passionate about fashion or food or music or politics- It was only yesterday that I had a momentary lapse in the library (of all places) and thought that Gordon Brown was the Prime Minister still. But like I said, it was only a momentary lapse, I obviously know that the PM is David Cameron, and Nicholas Clegg is the Deputy Prime Minister and the Lord President of the Council in the coalition government between the Conservative and Liberal Democrat parties (cheers Google!).

And as many of my friends will tell you, even though I do love music and I do love to dance, I wouldn’t know Kanye West if I fell over him, I thought Biffy Clyro was a solo female artist, and to me, the Wombats sound far too similar to the Wombles and so will forever in my eyes be pointy-nosed, furry creatures, wombling free.

With regards to food, I can make a cracking home-made garlic bread and I’m not contesting that I love good grub, but it’s not something that massively excites me.

Ah shucks! I fear I have had a classic case of the rambler, and this post has ended up somewhere entirely different than it began…I told you it may take me a while.

Taking everything into account, you’re probably about as clued up as me as to the way this blog is going to turn out. But how about you, if you were to start a blog, what tone would you go for; erudite and knowledgeable, or flippant and funny, or indeed to tame a brother’s advice and talk about the consistency of poo?

Until next time Chicas,

LikeWise. X