In case you’d not noticed, I enjoy writing.  I find the intellectual challenge of finding new things to say about life at Les Terraces, and in Sainte-Foy-La-Grande in a manner that people will find interesting to be a satisfying one.  It makes me think more about the region, what’s important about it, what draws us to it, its history and people.  Whether I have managed to succeed in doing so is an entirely different matter.  If the blog subscriptions are anything to go by I’ve failed dismally …. after 4 years of blogging we’ve only 6 subscribers and, as one of those is me to check that everything’s working properly, it means that there are only 5.  That’s pretty pathetic and depressing, don’t you agree?

So, last night I shared my desolation with my friends on my personal facebook page.  I awakened this morning feeling really embarrassed for having been so self-pitying and resolved to remove the post without further ado.  However, I was delighted to find a very helpful response from one friend, while two others let me know that there were some technical difficulties with that element of the blog page – something I didn’t know.

It has taken me quite some time to resolve the problems, all down to my being ridiculously cheap and trying to be our in-house webmaster, as opposed to paying a pro for help, but I believe that I’ve finally done it.

So many thanks go to Giles, Mapi, Robyn and the rest of my friends for their help and support.  Perhaps, now that the subscription services are fixed we’ll attract a few new readers.  Maybe not.  Should I add a subscriptions counter, or is that just an ego-booster?  Please let me know what you think – we’d really appreciate your thoughts.

See you soon (I hope).

Alex.