there are, in truth, a few annoyances about blogging which some of you might be familiar with, e.g. the actual cumbersome webspace limitations of most ‘free’ blog accounts and i have yet figured out how best to integrate all of the different media options — flickr, picassa, vimeo, etc. etc. etc. — and the archival aspects are not straightforward either; you ideally want everything to be in one and the same place.

moreover, transferring from one blogging platform to another also messes up the formatting of the existing posts (many of which i have yet rectified — since it needs to be sieved and manually fixed). all in all a pain and not something i have time to deal with at present. and admittedly, i have been getting more out from the spontaneous gratification of ‘real’, interactive social exchanges in FB-land… sad but true. it probably is an indication that the contents of this blog needs to have a different focus…

i don’t intend to give up blogging though… rather, i am still trying to figure out how best to use it for my creativity, or my way of sharing my adventures, thoughts, and a desire to communicate.

meanwhile… happy fossicking through the archives… (and if you spot any silly formatting faux pas and typos please please alert moi!).

it’s crazy, i know. it’s not like there’s nothing else better to do, y’know. life’s swamped in my wee cosmos…

but i do miss blogging.

i’ve just spent some time taking a break from some work and i’ve been tweaking the formatting of some old edible posts that got jumbled up when i moved overacuppa.com from the Movabletype platform to WordPress… there’s a lot of tweaking still to be done. pretty much lots of the actual formatting got lost in the transition/translation (ha!)… but i am sure one day, most of the older posts will be more readable! another thing i noticed is that some of the links are broken or no longer point to where they ought to… sigh.

there’s always stuff to do around here… =) but if you do notice anything amiss, i’d really appreciate knowing! merci!

meanwhile… here’s a sweet little poem i happened to fossick while finding inspiration for the new blog design…

Nearly Four
by Jeremy Lloyd

A teddy bear sits on a mattress one glass eye and threadbare paw
Looking at a cuckoo clock which tells it’s nearly ten to four
Four o’clock is teddy’s teatime, lots of friends and fancy cake
Although it’s only pretend eating…. oh how long ten minutes take

Shadows grow on distant hillside, orange sun on glassy sea
All in his amber eye reflected, and still ten minutes left till tea.
The mattress striped is old and broken, rusty springs through stuffing show,
The cuckoo clock is also broken but how’s a teddy supposed to know

Unaware he’s been abandoned, that this is not the nursery cot
The hills and sea, just glass, old papers on a disused rubbish plot
A telephone that no-one answers, empty tins that once held tea,
The clock that still says nearly teatime, where can all the children be?

For ages now he’s lain unwanted, saluting with a threadbare paw
He’ll never know he’s been discarded, till the clock reads after four
Don’t tell him that the clock is broken, as long as teddy doesn’t know,
It will always soon be teatime as it was so long ago.

taken from http://www.bearonessbears.com.au/nearlyfour.html