If you’re interested, my word count estimate is around a quarter of a million words from over 1600 posts. That seems like a lot of words for a six year old. Though, most posts start with the word ‘I’ and feature ‘me’ an awful lot, so you know, quite like a real six year old, I guess.
I always like to reiterate what this blog is for, on these birthdays. In case you missed the other five occasions, I called it ‘Why the Sea is Boiling Hot’ because of the Lewis Carroll poem, ‘The Walrus and The Carpenter’ - which is a nonsense poem of the finest order.
It struck me in 2013 that I might end up writing a lot of nonsense (ping!) and that somehow that nonsense might have moments of wonder and whimsy (ping!) and maybe even the odd bit of unexpected depth to it (ping!). What never occurred to me until a lot later, was the idea that the Walrus might actually be a picture of me, walking hand in hand through the odd, the deep, the serious and the hilarious... with the Carpenter, the Real Carpenter (ping ping ping!)
It’s an accident, that, but I quite like it.
So, as the blog enters its seventh year, and it starts to get sassy and precocious (ha! Though I hope not), I also hope you’ll stick with it. Thank you for making it so far. The world is very different to the way it was in the beginning but I still think that life is varied and interesting and funny enough to talk about, at least from my point of view. That’s how I roll anyway, it seems. Er, much like a walrus I guess. Goo goo g’joob.
Wrong nonsense walrus reference innit. Oh well.
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