There was a time when blogging was just a natural part of my weekly routine. I didn’t have to think about it too much, it was just ‘there’, but seemingly, little by little, other little things are putting the squeeze on it.

On one hand I feel like I did as a teenager, writing to distant pen-pals, always feeling a pang of guilt for taking a bit of time to respond, and feeling the need to ‘say so’…

This week is no different… it’s already well past midnight, Friday night, but I’m putting a stake in the ground and going to pull a few ‘bits & bobs’ together (as the British say); gonna pull a few thoughts together to give you a bit of a rundown of the past couple weeks.

To be specific… let me give you the top 7.5 newsy-bits from the past 3 weeks…