The end.

London – Saturday 22 June 2025

After much mental wrangling I’ve decided that I’m going pause the blog for a period, and at this stage I’m not certain how long that period will be. It could be forever, it could be a week. It’s likely to be somewhere in between, but it’s likely to be much longer than a week.

I’ve just renewed my subscription with WordPress so the site will be available for at least the next 12 months, maybe I will have decided on its future by then. There are about 15,000 images saved here and though I have all these backed up elsewhere it’s the only online archive I have of them. The questions I need to ask myself, and then answer honestly are;

    • Will anyone care if the blog disappears?
    • What happens when I stop paying? Do all my photos that massively exceed the free limit get deleted?
    • What happens when I die? This is an inevitability, my blog will stop at some stage, so what is the point of keeping it going now? Though to answer that one, I do reference it every now and then.

I’ve hit a roadblock with India. It’s not that I had a bad time as I didn’t, it’s that I have a thousand photos to review and chose a small number from, and then there is all the research I need to do to make some sense of the history of the places I’m showing. It just seems like a lot of work and there is a lot going on at the moment elsewhere and I’m staring at the India photos on almost daily basis, but going nowhere with them.

I’ve decided to sell my flat in St Leonards and buy somewhere a bit cheaper, though still in St Leonards.  We’ve been there a lot since we returned from our holiday and I’m enjoying being there. Hopefully at the end of that process I can be mortgage free, but that requires a lot of hope.  Knowing how long it took to buy my flat in the first place I suspect this will be a long winded and stressful process. Not having the blog hanging over my head will help me focus on what is important.

Maybe once I’m settled I will have the desire to start blogging again.

Thanks to anyone who has read my ramblings and to even more so to those who found them useful.

Phil

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Wannabe writer and photographer. Interested in travel and place. From Auckland, New Zealand.

4 thoughts on “The end.”

  1. Congratulations on keeping the blog going for near enough to 14 years Phil. I’ve enjoyed reading it from time to time, and I have always liked your photographic style.

    It would be a real shame to see it all disappear considering the amount of time you’ve put into it. Not sure how (if) you can archive the site for future recall or not, but, just a thought, have you ever considered publishing the blog as a book, or e-book. Apart from adjusting to suit page size, don’t change the format at all….

    It would be a great record to pass on to your grandkids… what an adventure!.

    CheersEwen

    1. Thanks Ewen, that was lovely !

      I’m sure I will resurrect it at some time in the future, but the idea of archiving into a e-book is one I hadn’t considered!

      Take care

  2. I am so sorry to see that the blog will stop. I really enjoy reading it – love the photos and am inspired by the travel stories. I was looking forward to seeing our day out in London – and the architecture in Chandigarh. Hope you revive it at some stage. You have a great writing voice.

    M.

    1. Thanks Martha, I really appreciate that, and one day Chandigarh may appear. But, I’ve written a bit about our day out 🙂

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