Greetings from Singapore. Things are a bit more settled now and it's about time I kept you up to date with what's going on. A lot of people said to me before I went 'are you going to start a blog' and I laughed at them and said no chance, but that was mostly becaue I didn't really get it (I'm too old to learn all this web 2.0 stuff). Having looked into it, it seems like the right way to go, and I'm reasonably confident I can get it all to work as I want it. Think of it like a regular postcard if it helps. Which leads me to unveil:
Great Uncle Travelling Matt.
Now pedants will say that it should be 'Uncle Travelling Matt' but that had already gone (and he's taken it all very seriously, see http://www.uncletravellingmatt.com/), so I skipped a generation. The rest of you won't of course get what I'm talking about. You can learn about it here.
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Uncle_Traveling_Matt
Of course it will be great to get emails from you telling me what you're all up to, it will be a strange world where we all trade blogs like photocopied circulars at Christmas (this year Jake learnt to play the bassoon and Miranda drowned Aunty Clarissas sainted budgerigar. How we all laughed...Anyway, Happy Holidays etc).
How it works:
Web: http://greatuncletravellingmatt.blogspot.com/
Email: You can subscribe at the website to receive updates via email. Email will come from Great Uncle Travelling Matt (rssfwd@rssfwd.com), please make this a known sender to avoid it landing in junk mail.
News: for those of you using Newsreaders:
* RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GreatUncleTravellingMatt
* Atom: http://greatuncletravellingmatt.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
I'm not about to post my contact details, you should have got them from the mail, but if you've lost them, just drop me a line.
Hope to hear from you all soon!
Matt
Friday, 24 November 2006
Dear Nephew Gobo...
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Hello Matt,
Natasha (twin) here. Sorry I didn't make your leaving party. Arg. I will have to come out and visit you in Singapore.
Some photos from my book launch here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26339121@N00/sets/72157594384045075/
First post! Woo Yay! Glad to hear that you got to the city of lions safely. I'll add you to my list of work avoidance blogs.
Hurrah - knew this was the only way to go. Good to hear you're settling in.
Andy
ooh am i the very first to leave a message?? sorry i didn't make your leaving party, blame last-minute babysitter crises. hope you're both having a great time in the 'pore (i have no idea if this is an accepted abbreviation but i liked it). keep in touch, lots of love helen (and dan and ewan and erin) xxxx
Hello Matt
All those people that thought they had first posts and didn't stand up now!!
Glad to see all us ex-hellers are fully embracing the new way of talking on-line (we just can't shake off the old habits)
Hope your settling in OK, and that life is good out there
talk soon
John
Hello Matt. Or should that be Great Uncle Matt, the traveller, or Great travelling Uncle Matt. Travel on and tell us stay-at-home vicarious Gobos all about it. Nothing has happened since you've been away. Nothing at all...
Web 2.0 my arse.
So come on then - how about some information about what you're up to? Apart from setting up blogs that is...
hi,
How do you like Singapore? I'm in neighbouring, Malaysia.
Blxxdy awesome lah.
Have a good Xmas.
Jumbo Seafood on East Coast Pkwy, it beats turkey...
Schwob/
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