First Timers!!

I remember very well the first time I ever drove a car - or at least, tried to!!

I had been badgering my father for many months to let me have a go! How difficult could it be, right?

I mean, I watched and watched and watched; I listened and listened and listened!  I knew how to drive a car, and I knew that I knew.

Then, one day, half expecting my dad would say 'no' . . . again; he didn't!
"Go on then!! - Have a go" - and I did - hmmm, no sooner was I at the wheel, when my whole world came caving in!

I stalled the car. Ignition, clutch - or was that clutch, ignition? Stalled again! (I won't write or attempt to describe the probable words that were in my mind - they dared not come out my mouth!! I am braver in my mind than I am in the physical world!)

Try again - same result.

I realised on that day that there is a world of difference between knowing something, and doing it!

Well, hell - "dejavu all over again!" (as Yogi Berra so eloquently put it!)

Here I am again, all over again - all these years later - and while I am not trying to drive a car - trying to drive a blog has proved to be equally challenging for me!

My personal angel, Lea, has patiently listened and watched as I have bumbled along trying to get this blog off the ground.

Great ideas swimming inside my craneum - but stubbornly refuse to transmute themselves from thoughts to words and just appear on the screen.

"Why don't you just write about some of your technical difficulties?", she urged!
"Huh? - What an amazing idea!" I replied.

So, here I am - getting my feet wet while writing about something that really has frustrated me this evening/night/morning - yip - it is now 01h40 UK time, and I am still here trying to get some words on the screen: So please forgive the slow start - but I am sure this will get easier and better as we go along.

I couldn't wait to start my blog - I know how this is done.  .  .  .