The blogger's curse

• The need to take photos at inappropriate moments.
• and wishing that your family would co-operate more by wearing matching clothes.
• Joking that you'll 'blog about that' and being met with a stoney silence.
• Sitting at the keyboard and staring at the screen with nothing interesting to say...and all that advice about saying nothing if you've got nothing to say...but you NEED to blog!
• Blogging about a particular something...and including a photo that exposes a part of your real life and that becoming the greater subject in the Comments.
• Constantly having to apologise for rubbish photography.

Sorry about the bad light and horrid cropping

• Trying to protect your family's privacy because they want you to.  And failing because they are a far greater source of material than you ever dreamed possible.
• Writing too much.
• Editing.  Because actually, it's not nearly as funny when told in 3 kerjillion words after all.  Thirty words usually will do.
• Fretting about making yourself understood. And then, wait - remember yourself - this isn't about influence, it's for entertainment.
• Being so shallow as to fail to recognise something controversial when you say it. 
• Finding that the person that bothers to email something about your arrogance hasn't made it possible to reply to their very rude message.
• The deflation - sitting in a craft workshop and overhearing others chat about your blog without knowing that you're the author...only to discover their low opinion!
• The elation of being told that others enjoy your blog - this is a double edger - it can cause enormous performance anxiety!