GrrlScientist and a new friend, a wild great tit, Parus major, select among her photographs snapped at Hietaniemen hautausmaa (Hietaniemi cemetery) in Helsinki, Finland. Yes, it was damned cold there!
Image: Bob O'Hara, 24 November 2008.
It's been a busy time for me, my peeps. I returned from a two-week visit to England almost one week ago, where I attended and live-tweeted two meetings and several train trips, met my new colleagues at The Guardian, and snapped a thousand or so photographs (some of which I'll be sharing with you in the next few weeks).
After I returned home, I thought I could begin writing for you in earnest, only to discover that the ridiculously incompetent fools at T-Mobile inexplicably shut off my wireless connection – for the third time in just six months. After battling those idiots for the past six days, wi-fi has been restored at least temporarily, which leaves me to dig out from under more than 1,500 emails, finish several essays for you and bumble around as I try to familiarise myself with publishing on this new platform.
This might sound like a lot of hassle, but the reason I do this is for you. But at this time, I am blind because unless you comment, I don't know anything about you; who you are, where you live, what you do, what you care about.
So whilst I attend to business, please help me out by telling me about yourself. Are you a regular reader who has followed my peregrinations all over the blogoverse these past few months or read my blurtations on twitter, or did you just find this blog? Do you live in the UK or are you one of my many international readers? Do you also write a blog or use twitter? If so, let me (and your fellow readers here) know!
Of course, I'd love to know other things about you: Do you keep pets? Are you attending university? If so, what are you studying (or alternatively, if you've completed your education, what are you doing now)? Do you travel and if so, where do you most enjoy visiting? What is the title of the book that you are reading right now, or what book have you read recently that most impressed you?
But most important to me, if you are reading this and you either haven't commented before or haven't commented here, would you leave a comment to say hello? And as always, if you'd like me to write about something in particular, let me know (I already have one reader suggestion that I plan to work on).
