New Malden hath returned

Hello.

I'm James and I used to have a blog about New Malden on 20six, a rival blogging site. Everything went swimmingly for a while, but then my blog was destroyed by the collected forces of darkness and evil. This was a great shame, as it was a lovely blog, and was widely read by the great peoples of New Malden and elsewhere. Even people from Raynes Park would read it then send me massively long, gushing emails pointing out that I was right and New Malden was clearly the best and how they felt sick and dirty all the time because they lived in Raynes Park, and that even if they washed and washed and washed and washed they couldn't get rid of the stench.

I wrote about many things. I wrote about the Wimpy closing down, with tears cascading down onto my keyboard. I wrote about the Woodies quiz, and I wrote about the Malden Fortnight, and about various Korean food festivals, and many other things too. It was fun.

I met lots of interesting people via my blog, both in the real world (as in, you can touch them) and in the online world (as in, you can send them postcards and emails and have interesting conversations about matters of great importance, and it doesn't matter that they're not from New Malden).

And it was a glorious time. But then the foul winds came, and threw everything into dischord, and 20six was destroyed. This was alright though, because I was getting bored with blogging anyway, so I took a break from writing for strangers and non-strangers and went for a walk in the sunshine instead. Almost a year-long walk in the sunshine.

But I think it's time to start writing again.