keith's ramblings

Not much happens on November 25th. Percy Sledge was born in 1941 and as I’m sure you’ll remember the Christian martyr Peter of Alexandria keeled over in the year 311. In 1949 Bojangles died and Karl Benz the German car manufacturer took his first breath in 1929.

In 1977 David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hours 15 minutes, and the future Queen Elizabeth married Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey in 1947.

And did you know that in 1949 Gene Autry's "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" entered the pop charts and in 1963 President John F. Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

So I suppose it falls to me to provide the biggie! On November 25th 2006 I plonked my first post down here on Keith’s Ramblings!
This is my 500th post. My first one was a pretty dodgy affair called Lucky Dip. Nobody knew I existed so unsurprisingly I got no comments. The piece which has received the most hits is a travelogue I wrote called Samos – an unspoilt Greek Island. Although it only picked up three comments at the time , my hit meter has recorded over 1200 visits via Google.

My favourite post has to be My Dear Friend, a very short piece I wrote about the death of one of the most remarkable people I’ve ever met.

I supposed I got the most satisfaction from writing my part work The Stranger. I never knew from one week to the next where the story would go but it worked. It now has its own site.

I suppose the biggest thing to happen to my blog was the arrival of Rosemary Pinkerton! I first wrote about my friend Rosey in January in an article called The Adventures of a Girl called Rosey. It was an instant hit and so I’ve continued to write about her ever since, in fact I’ve written 53 stories about her to date. Throughout it all she’s remained a good mate despite me telling you all sorts of things about her, admittedly embellished and exaggerated on occasions, and teasing her mercilessly! More recently she has taken control of her adventures by starting her own blog called Rosey’s Posey and when I read her posts it’s almost as if I’d written them myself!

Today Keith’s Ramblings is just one of 7 blogs I run the latest being a writing prompt site called Carry On Tuesday.

So, will I write another 500 pieces? I don’t know. I sometimes think that I spend too large a part of my life here at my keypad and too much of the night writing when I should be sleeping. But in the immediate future I fully intend to keep up the pace.

Finally thank you for your support. Without your generous comments and encouragement I would have given up ages ago!