So here I am at the very tender age of forty one…..Life begins at forty…….blogging begins at forty one.

Is this like a diary?

Well if it is then this may well be a really good thing. The amount of times that I have sat down and thought about writing down whatever we (me and mrs mou) have been doing, what I am thinking about, good things, bad things. Also, how many times have I thought “I should write that down”…..and didn`t!

So this could be the start of something truly beautiful. The discipline of writing, keeping up to date and just doing it should be very positive.

The question that must be answered is….What is the point of a journalism student having a blog?

Here goes….

Amateur blogging may well be dead but it certainly looks as if the pros are keeping this going, at least for the foreseeable. So lets learn how to do this thing! I am not in the John Humphries grumpy old git, dinosaur  league just yet. In actual fact as I sit here tapping away at these lifeless keys this is beginning to feel strangely addictive. I am getting techno. Up-to-date. Oh my, I may even now use this thing they call Facebook.

I digress.

This Masters here at UCF is all about new skills…what challenges we are having. We are not even at the end of week four. The brain hurts. Keeping up with the changing media. That’s the name of the game. Nick Robinson, Justin Webb, Robert Peston. They all have them. They post as if it has always been so. The blackberry is pressed into seamless action. The bloggers hook their audience and the gallery waits with baited breath for the latest instalment. It is like The Archers for news wonks. By the way, I caught The Archers last night. First time in ten years. Something about Pip and her baby. I hope all is well there.

I digress.

Radio, t.v.,print, online, multi platform. All skills that we are going to learn. That is what the industry is requiring, so that`s why we are doing it.  Lets keep writing. This could be as long running as those folk from Ambridge.

So, now this is off the ground, lets get down to it.

Today is Thursday.