Winston Churchill was a geek!

Greetings to all of you in what, one suspects, I'm going to have to call the 'blogosphere'.

I actually wanted to start a blog a week ago, when I turned thirty three. It made sense - at this age some men have already begun to plan for their mid-life crisis and have begun saving for a fast car and a chest wig. To me it seemed like the ideal way to mark this (not very) important event was to put together a blog - having seen at least one person through a public blog birthing already...

...and then I didn't. Things happened in that way that they do (both one after the other and simultaneously) and here I am a full week into my 34th year with no blog to speak of...

...and then this morning I opened my (inevitably free) newspaper to find that Winston Churchill has been outed as a geek. Hurrah! - the establishment icon who so many revere actually wrote fan letters to H.G. Wells and worked quotes from 'War of the worlds' into his speeches. If the guy was alive today he'd be hanging around outside Forbidden Planet and posting pictures on the Internet of himself in his homemade Darth Vader outfit.

I was suddenly (and rather bizarrely) inspired by Winnie's example to stop putting it off and tentatively place one of my oh-so-fine toesies in the tepid water of the blogosphere.

Will it work?

Will it be of interest to anyone?

Or will it be like that time I had the idea of writing 'Toastbusters' - a computer game for the ZX spectrum which largely revolved around making breakfast - and will I thankfully forget about it after a few days?

Only time (and my short attention span) will tell.