Commuter's Blog List!
* Midwife's Muse
I love job blogs, particularly medical ones and especially when they're full of interesting medical conditions that I'm not personally going to be suffering from. These days she seems to be getting into trouble with management for having women request her to deliver their babies - imagine that. Fascinating and even bloke-safe - despite the subject matter, there aren't too many gory bits (although rather a lot about grandchildren)
Midwife Muse does battle with NHS management.
* Ian B - Computer Guy and borderline psychopath
Someone who doesn't blog nearly enough, in my opinion. Ian B is dryly funny and usually pretty thought provoking to boot. Plus he's Midwife Muse's brother-in-law and I love the idea of blogging families (particularly as I come from one myself). I wonder if during family get togethers they all rabidly compare stats and gossip about people they've never met? Not that that's what our family do, of course. Not at all. We would never do that...
Ian B catches up with some family gossip.
* L'il O
Despite the fact that I can't work out how to pronounce her blog title in my head (is it as in the air bed, or as in 'little o'?) I love this blog and it's only sheer laziness that prevents me from adding it to my faves. Her work life seems to be a disaster of car-crash proportions (and wait till they find the blog) and she's not above throwing in the odd life-threatening children's illness when you least expect it, but it's all funny - even the grimmest bits. And sometimes it's just funny.
Li'l O licks a queue into shape
* Headcase
Another fascinating blog, this time about brain tumours (we're all laughs here on Disgruntled Commuter, I tell you). Jon Kelly got diagnosed with an Acoustic Neuroma (a benign tumour) in 2005 and his blog is now chronicling his recovery from the tumour and the operation to remove it. There's no self pity here, just fine, insightful writing. And some amusing pictures. Another one who doesn't blog nearly often enough.
Headcase tries the Roger Moore school of acting.
* Lemon Squash
Lemon Squash probably needs no further introduction as he can be found commenting on practically any blog in the 20six universe and beyond. But I include him anyway because it's another blog I'm addicted to. It's a soap opera of his life with a great cast of characters - from Busty Farm Girl to the Heartstopping Potential Lesbian by way of Surfer Film-Maker Chap full of humour and rural incident.But the real question is - just when will he get lucky?
Lemon Squash discusses a thorny legal question.
Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the new platform.
(by Disgruntled Commuter )
I'm not going to write about my 'favourite' blogs here - most of them you can find by checking out my own site and looking under 'favourites...', it's not rocket science - but I did want to mention another category of blogs I regularly read. But first, children, a little history.
When I decided to start up the Disgruntled Commuter blog I didn't give much thought to what blog platform to put it on. I chose 20six because my sister was using it and I thought it would do - a little easier to use than blogger, nicer interface etc. etc., but nothing more than a convenient place to publish my rantings about Silverlink and the like. Wrong. 20Six is much more than a blog platform - it's a cross between being back at school and a cult. At the time when I joined, big beasts dominated the landscape (Menace, Norah, Heather ... where are you now?) the way the sixth formers did at school, and I was no more than a lowly first year scuttling the corridor in my too-new blazer, hoping to avoid too much scornful attention. There would be periodic strange outbreaks of comment wars over who had the most 'popular' blog or who was pretending to be someone else under a false name. Then came the great porn-blog- shemale-new-platform-mass-hysteria outbreak of 2006 and half the people left, leaving us of a more phlegmatic (or perhaps that should read 'lazy') disposition suddenly in the position of the senior class.
At first it seemed like everyone had gone and also that all the features that had given 20six its unique community feel (not to mention occasional outbreaks of fits of the vapours) had gone with them. But as the dust settled on the changes, we survivors noticed a few things. First, there were still some other old timers out there plugging away doing what they do and not getting caught up in all the excitement. And also there were a few new features - not obvious at first - to keep us all tied into the 20six world. There's the 'most popular ' list finally answering that vexed question (except that still nobody knows what the most popular blog is, because erosia is password protected). There are the channels for twisting your posts to fit into such high minded topics as 'Classical music' or 'Literature' when they would more comfortably fit into 'Chocolate' or 'Random rantings'. And then there's the new, improved recently blogged list which is much, much longer than the old one so you can generally see a whole day's worth of blog postings. This is the real godsend of the new site. It means that as long as you're on fairly frequently yourself (who, me?), you never miss a posting, even from those people who blog irregularly, or people who you've forgotten you even read until you see the name pop up in the list. For me it means I can generally find those blogs which haven't quite made it to my favourites list yet because they don't post enough, or because I keep meaning to and don't quite get round to it, or because I daren't risk the old 'curse of the favourites' (most blogs last generally about two weeks after I've put a link to them into my sidebar, and then *poof*, they're blog history).
So here they are - the blogs which draw me back in after I've blogged, and I've checked out my faves, and I've read my comments, and I've checked my stats, and I've promised myself I'll stop wasting time on the internet - just as soon as I have one last look at the recently blogged list ... and oh look, Midwife's Muse has posted, or IanB, or Headcase, or Li'lo or Lemonsquash. I'll just quickly read those, won't take a minute, maybe stick in a comment or follow a link. Gosh, is that really the time? Already?
