It's been a year since I first stepped out into the blogosphere, and a lot of water has gone under the proverbial bridge since then. At the start, I used Blogware enough to appreciate both its abilities and its limitations. The main one was not having the option to customise it so that it looked like a part of my website rather than being a mere add-on. That it was a service from my hosting provider could have been part of the straitjacketing; it would have worked better in a standalone capacity.<\/p>\n
To get the level of customisation that I needed, I downloaded WordPress and began to host the blog from my own webspace after a spot of fiddling, migration of pre-existing posts\u00a0and adding a MySQL database to my hosting account. The result was that I now had a blog that at least looked as if it was part of the same website as the other sections, such as the photo gallery.<\/p>\n
The content of the blog has evolved too, though the backbone is essence the same: descriptions of any walks, public transport commentary, consideration of new walking ideas, musings on outdoor gear, photo gallery updates and thoughts of hill walking books and magazines.<\/p>\n
However, my walking now has evolved from where it was this time last year. Then, it was a case of picking a part of Britain where the weather is due to be clement and heading off there. That approach does lend itself to a variety of content, but without having somewhere new to explore, motivation can run flat.<\/p>\n
That said, 2006 proved itself to be the year of going to places new; my boots trod Pembrokeshire, Northumberland and Southern Scotland, to name a few. In contrast, 2007 appears to be dominated by a single large objective: continuing north along the Pennine Way, perhaps its northern terminus Kirk Yetholm. Who knows where it all could go next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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