Hello. What follows is what I’ve written today in my Bio and my About page, in advance of hopefully starting to post here.
Iain MacDonald. Outer Hebridean Inner Londoner. Harmonising with the Everly Brothers. One man's civilisation is another man's jungle. You might as well laugh - you won't get your money back.
I’m Iain - Another Iain.
I had - have - a blog, Posted Notes, which became all long, detailed daily diary entries at the start of lockdown 2020 (because I knew I’d forget what it was like if I didn’t write it down), and which I then kept up in that fashion and made private.
I’ve missed being able to properly share with my friends the kinds of things that they used to be interested to read in my blog - hilarious remarks, incidents, stray thoughts, quotes, links and so on; things which are still there, but buried in a lot of other stuff, and also behind a wall. I tried to do some of that on other social media, but nothing was really satisfactory.
I think Substack might do the trick. My plan is to pull out some of those kinds of bits from my diary and put them together in occasional - maybe monthly - posts of bits here.
Why subscribe?
I haven’t quite got the hang of how Substack works yet, or how to format my posts and my page and what not, but:
You can subscribe and get each blog post - Substack calls them newsletters - in an email, though you can also click through to read it on my page on Substack.
You can subscribe using this big green button:
You can also not subscribe, and not get the posts/newsletters in email form, if you prefer not to, but still read the posts, old and new, on my page on Substack, whenever you remember to have a look. I believe you can ‘follow’ my page/posts, without subscribing.
I believe this link takes you to my page on Substack. You could save it somewhere.
Also, it’s not a private/secret blog, so do feel free to let other people know about it. Or not.
Anyway, let’s see how this goes. Thanks for being interested enough to read this, or at least skim through it this far.
Iain