Following on from my last post, in which we discussed online personas, factual or ridiculous, I’ve been thinking about a couple of characters I dearly miss from blogging misadventures past. One very talented writer whose blog I love (thank you, Elaine Canham) suggested that whatever personal stuff writers say about themselves online could just be made up. This made me think even more. (Doesn’t happen too often. But I have paracetamol.)
A few years back, a competition got me blogging for the first time. The competition aimed to find a couple who would road-test honeymoons for six months.
I can’t imagine why anyone might want to enter a competition which would enable them to travel to the most paradisiacal spots of the planet for half a year with the person they’re mad about, and get paid to boot for the pleasure, but still, myself and the man who now lets…
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