Blogging, blogging.... gone

It’s time to end this blog.
I’m not happy with how it’s developing. I simply don’t have time to live in Kyrgyzstan and to update the blog regularly. Worse, what I write isn’t even particularly interesting. I’ve read what I wrote in the last post: I don’t like it and so I’ve removed it.

It’s easy to say that I should just select the highlights and skip the mundane events but it’s the day-to-day things which show what I’m experiencing here. Learning about and adapting to life in a different culture is what’s interesting for me and, I thought, writing about this makes my blog different from others: there are plenty of other blogs where people just publish their photos with a three-word caption and write about what they think are the exciting parts of their holidays. The entertaining events I’ve experienced here are only interesting as part of the whole; when taken out of context, they just don’t mean anything.

I’ve now had too many complaints that the blog is becoming boring. I don’t know how to make it amusing or interesting without giving the detail but it’s the detail that makes it boring. As someone who struggled to survive five years of engineering’s smothering greyness, accusations that I’ve been contaminated by the dull brown of Communism cut deep.
It will be good to return to the United Kingdom and its unique sense of humour after too long abroad.

Thank you for following this blog and for all the comments, especially Anita, Hana and Joris for helping bring this blog alive and often making me laugh out loud with what you’ve written. A memorial service featuring pints of cheap lager in a seedy Cardiff pub will be held to commiserate the apparent demise of Raw Bacon and Frogman.

This blog is now closed.