I’ve been blogging for a while now (‘a while’ because I’d rather not think about how long I have been blogging on various blogs. It makes me feel old.) and I have favourite blogs that I’ve followed over the years. Here are some of them …
This blog was born from that wonderful time when the Scarlet Pimpernel was all the rage in the blogging community [that I stalked]. It seems to have slowly faded away, alas. But sometimes these things do ‘appen. (Yes. That is a Phantom reference.)
BLOG STATUS: a faded dream …
EDIT: It comes to my blushing attention, that I’ve actually managed to make a general kerfuffle of things – whilst I originally put ‘SINK ME! ‘where humorous nonsense meets period drama’ as the blog name and link here … I actually meant The Day Dream. Sink Me! is still an active blog. And my extremely humble apologies goes out to the author. Absent mindedness, thy name is Ness.
I read and even participated in some (or rather, one) events on this blog. But I am no longer a teen and feel:
a) discriminated against
b) left out
Like, Go ‘Teen’ Writers? C’mon. I just feel like, so offended. Ageism is CLEARLY at play here.
BLOG STATUS: still going but I don’t read it as much because I am now a grumpy old codger.
[DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT RESENT THE TEEN WRITERS. NAY. I WISH THEM WELL AND ALL THE BEST. I RESENT TIME AND THE WAY ONE FALLS OUT OF DEMOGRAPHICS AND INTO HORRIBLE THINGS LIKE BILLS AND TAXES]
I read this one and the blog belonging to Miss Dashwood’s sister. But I think the sister’s blog is no more and Yet Another Period Drama has slowly had less and less postings.
Now, I know – it’s easy to suspect foul play here; to think that if a blogger doesn’t post they have been killed by resentful otters, but one hopes that the reason the blogger is not blogging is because they are living fulfilling and busy lives.
Which I think is Miss Dashwood’s case; she has – it appears – either gone into ring/hand modelling or has gotten engaged. (In which case, I wish her a hearty congratulations and all the very, very best.)
BLOG STATUS: posting far, far less.
Rachel Heffington has evolved into a food writer and recipe developer but I was there in her novel writing days (HIPSTER ALERT) and my word, did Anon, Sir, Anon come out in 2014?!! Where has the time flown?!!
I remember when her very first book came out – I bought a copy and took it up into the Peak District to take pictures of, because I wanted Heffington to have sort of visited England, if only by proxy.
Her author blog was quirky and witty and I loved to read it. Occasionally, I hold a moment of silence over the blog’s silence. (I kid.)
I think it was Rachel Heffington who first introduced me to Wodehouse – at the time I didn’t quite ‘get it’ – it would be a while before the penny dropped – but … now I have and for that, I am ever in your debt, Rachel Heffington.
BLOG STATUS: author has moved on to bigger, brighter, and more edible things
If I ever want to feel intellectually stimulated, I head over to Suzannah Rowntree’s blog. She writes delicious reviews and if ever I spot she’s reviewed one of my previous reads, you can be sure I put aside everything I’m doing to devour it.
I may not be enamoured with everything she says (she did not take to the characters in Behold, Here Is Poison by my beloved Heyer which I *cough* slightly resent because Randall Matthews is the cat’s meow and I defy everyone who says otherwise. NO I AM NOT BIASED) but her reviews are always terribly interesting.
BLOG STATUS: posting on
THERE ARE MORE …
… there are so many questions to answer – who is a fellow Sutcliff reader? Who addressed the importance of red shoes? Who had the grabbiest post titles? Who LIKES K-DRAMAS TOO?!!! Who reads and writes far, far too fast? And – and this is the most important one – who introduced me to the wonders of Georgette Heyer?
This warrants another blog post. (Which will not be as tardy as this one. Probably.)
Happy reading!
of words & books 
it’s kind of sad when bloggers stop posting but like you, I do hope those bloggers are living very productive happy lives and that’s why they’re not blogging.
I just recently discovered ‘sink me’ but I guess I was too late because there’s hardly any posting updates. the other blogs you’ve mentioned here, I haven’t heard of them but I would have liked them.
have a lovely day.
I know! You have to remember that their silence online doesn’t mean silence offline (I sometimes link them and then think that they have ceased to exist. Eek!)
Some of them are still active – the next bloggers, blogging will have more of the active ones on – and besides, there is always their backlists.
Thank you ❤ I hope you have a lovely day too!
Totally got engaged, and I feel bad about it.
No, wait.
I mean, I totally got engaged and I feel great about THAT but I also feel bad about No Blogging, which is basically what has happened over the last year, and that is sad, and do you know how many posts I have in draft? A LOT.
But I’m really sorry. 😦
Also, Sink Me! IS still technically alive but my younger sister is running it these days and she feels a bit bereft of inspiration at the moment. I’ve thought about reviving it on Instagram, but not sure I have the time/energy to put that together…
Many congratulations to you! And honestly, there is a time and a season for everything – even blogging.
And – and this is both hysterically funny AND mighty embarrassing – I’m not sure how I managed it … but in my mind, I didn’t mean to put Sink Me! I meant to put The Day Dream. How on EARTH I managed that is a testament to true absent mindedness because I read/have read both and know the difference … send my apologies to your sister, and say I hope inspiration returns for her.
(… it’s such a me thing to do. My gosh. It’s a good thing I never became a journalist!)