More ideas, less north

I visited my old school/workplace last week and was speaking to a student who told me that he had been put onto "my blog" and had read it in its entirety. Assuming he meant the blog I used to keep for my Year 12 Lit class, I thought nothing of it (the student who put him onto the blog was from my old Lit class), until it became apparent that he meant Ideas From the North.

While I was surprised that any of my students would have tracked this site down and/or made the connection to me, I wasn't particularly embarrassed. It's not as if I'm recounting drunken exploits or anything like that. Besides, as he reasonably pointed out, I haven't written here for more than a year anyway, so personal revelations have been few and far between of late. Heck, most things have been few and far between here of late - even spam, which has attacked my Lit blog like a particularly malicious strain of the plague but somehow has spared Blogger.

What all this achieved was that it reminded me that, from time to time, people actually did read my blog, and some people even miss it. So, while the name now seems a bit inappropriate (I'm no longer in the north, unless you count the north of Berwick, which is in the south - see, even I'm already confused), I thought I might as well get the old site dusted off and write the occasional something-or-other here. I don't promise anything regular, but it should be at least more regular than once every 15 months. I'll do my best.