WHY

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How this came to be and why a new site

The original impulse for starting this blog was twofold.  First, as I said, I was bored.  I needed a new project.  Something creative to do in my old age.  Secondly I had purchased a copy of Nigel Slater's Kitchen Diaries - volume three I think - and this gave me the idea of doing a similar thing.  After all I do love food and everything foodie, so why not just write down what came into my head on the topic of food for that day.

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So I started it using iBooks Author.  Wrote a couple of pages and gave up because I was spending too much time looking for pictures.  Well, now that I think of it, that couldn't have been the real reason, because I still take a lot of time looking for pictures. And that's part of the fun.

Anyway I decided to go with my initial instinct and just write something by hand - and I did keep that up until we went away on a long holiday, but really it was a bit boring and not illustrated - that really was too hard.  Now if I could draw ...

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So I started again in iBooks Author and it was quite satisfying and fun, but David told me I should do something I can share with the interested.  (Who are they?)

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So I decided to go online and use Wix which our film society uses.  I needed some new kind of project.  I was getting bored and finding life a bit pointless - although I'm not sure we ever entirely rid ourselves of that dark thought..  Besides it’s really quite fun 'designing' the whole thing.  I don't really 'design' - I just modify a Wix template.  And then I find pictures to illustrate which is also fun.   Half the fun of doing the family history website is finding appropriate pictures.  I might learn something too.

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I initially called it Food Diary, but  changed it to Rosemary's Ramblings - not quite the same compulsion to do it every day and a bit broader.  Really it’s just musings with a food focus.  It's certainly not a well-researched academic kind of thing.  Pretty superficial really.  Food can take you in all sorts of directions though.  So I started the blog and have enjoyed it enormously, besides learning a lot of weird and wonderful and just plain interesting things along the way.

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I am now changing to a new website and a new design because Wix have told me I have to change to their new blog format, and I saw this as an opportunity to go for a 'real' url and actually pay them for the privilege of using their software.  They deserve it.  If somebody creates something excellent then they deserve recognition and reward.

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So here we go with version two.  I think version one is still accessible on the old url.  But change your bookmark to the new url - www.ramblingrose.online