I have said before I love my Blog Buddies. You don't use my tea bags, you take up no room on the sofa and I am always pleased to see you and know that you have popped round. (seriously, I just made a typo - pooped rather than popped, I definitely would not like it if any of you started to poop round! Just for the record)! I like the way with Blog Buddies 'like attracts like', we follow people who have the same interests as ourselves, or whose lives interest or inspire us. We follow people who make us smile and laugh and offer words of support, wisdom, encouragement or timely humour. I started to Follow
Simply ...Life, a great blog written by Claire. Claire and I have a lot in common, we are both busy Moms, we both hand spin and do strange things with raw fleece and fibre, we both crochet and knit, we both love chickens (but sadly Claire lost Betty not too long ago), we like to grow and cook our own fruit and vegetables, we bake our own bread, enjoy reading, try to simplify our lives as much as is humanly possible, we both have sons with long hair, we both enjoy being members of Weaving Spinning and Dyeing Guilds and then....get this...after following each others blogs for a few months we realised we live in the same town! We live about a ten minute drive from each other.
I am not sure if I would describe myself as shy or antisocial, I don't feel shy and I don't really feel antisocial (depending on the company). I have never been one for lots of friends but the friends I have, I have been friends with for years and years and they are very dear to me. It has been a long time since I have made a new friend. Today I met Claire for the first time and her cute three year old daughter. I was a bit apprehensive/anxious but I really needn't have been. We had a nice afternoon chatting about craft, kids, gardening and stuff and I am very pleased to say my 'new' friend makes a delicious cup of tea.
Isn't Blogland great? I used to think Blogland was Blogland, somewhere out in cyberspace, separate from the 'real' world. Now I realise Blogland and the 'real' world overlap. It is very strange to meet a Blog Buddy, someone that you know quite a bit about but have only 'met' in Cyberspace. I hope to see Claire again soon as I have not been introduced to her spinning wheel yet. I would also like to go to her allotment , armed with welligogs, spades and a flask of hot tea!
Maybe we should have a mass Blogland gathering sometime, anyone fancy the South of France or the Greek islands? xxx
