A New Home

So I'm currently working on moving all of the back posts from my blog on www.soroco.org.uk to this platform - as it's easier to post through, add photos, edit etc. Than the back end system on the website. Hopefully it'll make the Speak Out, Reach Out, Camp Out blog posts more interactive with social media, encourage me to post more, and many one day I'll figure out how to make this all collaborative too (so it's not just me rabbiting on!). I also like that fact this system has a spell check (being dyslexic and all, I usually went back later and spotted dozens of spelling mistakes in my previous posts). The irony is it doesn't think 'blog' is a word...

Here I am typing away on my computer (taken at CSW in 2011, but it's by go to picture for this kind of thing).As life moves on at pace, I realise weeks (sometimes months) have galloped by without posting more than a few shared images to facebook let alone a thoughtful message on my blog. But reading the posts by this year's UK WAGGGS delegate to CSW has inspired me back into action - you can check out the posts in question at http://alittlebitrosy.blogspot.co.uk/.

I moved back to the UK two weeks ago, after just over four months out of the country. The majority of that time was spent with my partner in Massachusetts, USA, with a week long trip to Bali for the Global Youth Forum in the December. My partner is American and we moved back to the UK together (along with a beautiful dog) and so this post is about new homes in more way than one. Job hunting, house hunting and setting up life all over again is, I guess, a permissible excuse for my temporary slackness. But a combination of Rosy's blog and returning to my parents house, where I pinned my project roadmap to the wall of the bedroom, has made me think about how much more this project can achieve.

With that in mind, I have grand ambitions for another Camp Out event to take place in some form later this year, for another exhibition project using photography to highlight role models, for fundraising for these projects, and for developing the website and other online tools.

If you'd like to get involved in any of these projects, I'd love to hear from you!