7 months exactly since I wrote my last blog post. So much has happened, so much has changed since then. And not at all in the way you may be thinking from what I last wrote.
The past 7 months have been the most emotionally difficult period of my life. My relationship with Tal (or rather, with He Who Shall Not Be Named, as I prefer to refer to him) ended shortly after I left London. I didn’t put much of my personal life into my blog, so you wouldn’t have been aware of this, but things were definitely not all rosy during my Italian and London trips. In fact, I was on the start of an emotional rollercoaster, which soon after just went downhill. And down is where I’ve been for the last seven months.
So why have I returned to writing? I have been in need of a good deal of healing. Been trying various things, which I hope to write about, and tonight driving home I started thinking of writing my blog again. The whole way home I was writing this post in my head. And I figured it could be a good thing. I have written a lot in my diary over the past months. Intermittently though. Perhaps this will be a more regular activity.
I have no idea who’ll be reading this. There are some friends who subscribed all those months ago. There are some friends who asked me why I had stopped writing. After the break-up, I felt there was nothing to say, nothing to write about. Hopefully I’m back, Nads!
After I stopped writing, I thought that would be the end of my blog. Who’d read it now that I’d stopped writing? And who would even find it? But the weird thing is… and I was totally surprised to discover this tonight… there are still loads of people coming to my site. Okay, not HUNDREDS, but even 40 a day (on average) is a fortune of people, especially since I haven’t written a word in 7 months! And they’re finding me through the search engines. Take a look at the search terms which brought visitors to my site just yesterday:
- sad old man
- doc martens
- primrose hill
- italy map
- concrete balcony
- martens
- capri italy maps
- san marco square
- verone piazza delle erbe
- where fore art thou, romeo
- o romeo romeo
- schengen visa application
- fishing old man poor
- schengen visa italy
- kosher italy
- guy in undies
- doc marteens
- map of italy
- blue love sad
- juliet house
- bell centre arena seat distance
- tuna italy
- balcony juliet
- happy man fishing
- schengen visa questions
- south african passport holder needs a sc
- old man coat
How bizarre! “Guy in undies”???!!!!!!! Hmmm…. I think that many of these search terms were for images, like “map of italy”. To be honest, I have tried typing in some of these into Google but haven’t found my blog come up much. Actually, these search terms are starting to look like some kind of fridge poetry. Or Search Engine Haiku.
sad old man
blue love sad
where fore art thou, romeo?
Well, enough for one night. Good thing I started writing late at night or who knows how long this post would be! 
P.S. At last, I have now found my blog coming up – on Google’s image search. “doc martens” “primrose hill”…. But still no idea how “blue love sad” brings you here. If you can find out how, I’ll reward you with…. fame and fortune as your name gets mentioned here. And then you too can join sad old guys in undies on Juliette’s balcony.
