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Guess who found some of her articles backed up on a usb drive? I am going to put up the articles that I found and think that I might even get my old theme back – yahoo – back in business!

Remember, dear reader – back up, back up, back up – you never know what cyber gremlins may be about…

Hi All, sorry for disappearing but I had problems beyond my control. It seems that the server my blog was hosted on went belly up – they just disappeared overnight last week! I have no idea what happened but my freind who put up this site for me on a server he was using lost all his websites, including those of some clients – ouch! It is considered odd in cyber land for a server to not be able to supply back-up of the sites stored on their servers but that is what happened – no back-up available. That is not too bad for me but I m sure that must have been really bad for some people – I feel for them! I will be able to put up a few pieces that I wrote but i cannot remember what the lovely theme I was using is so I will search again – exciting really, new beginnings and all that…

I hope you are all well and will come back sometime for a wee read and see what exciting new things I can find to make my wee blog pretty again…

I am new to blogging and when I searched for blogs pertaining to renewable energy and sustainable living I found about one quarter of a million! So why add to this list? I really don’t have any particularly good reason. I guess it’s one way for me to communicate that doesn’t involve travel, perhaps I should say that hopefully it will become a way to communicate as the blog develops – and perhaps someone will read it and leave a nice comment.

I did find it difficult to wade through even some of the 250 thousand blogs that came up however I also found some that are really enjoyable to read, I will do my best to add them to the blogroll as I find them.

I noticed that some blogs are so covered with ads that I quickly lose interest and don’t even bother to bookmark them – so you might guess that I am not a big fan of the advertising world, I don’t enjoy things that are over-commercialized.

I can handle a blog with a few ads, fair play to anyone who can add to their income by blogging (multiple income streams are great) but please don’t go for overkill, I am sure that there are others who like me will just switch off.

I am more into sharing than buying, I am trying to not be a good little consumer.