About Wordsmith

Yes, they're lovely Missy - but keep going

This isn’t me, in case you wondered. That would have surprised a few people, especially my wife.

Hmmm, the time has come to say something exciting and interesting about myself. I have avoided this so far, due to the inherent difficulty, but it has become fairly clear that both of my readers are getting bored of the pictures. OK, I’ve still put up a picture as I do get people (sometimes more than a thousand in a day!) who click in and out in less than a second (actually the website monitor says 0 seconds, boy they are quick). Clearly they only just have time to take in the picture, realise they’ve seen it before, and click away again. It has kept me grounded knowing my blog can be so quickly dismissed by so many people, LOL. Does this happen to everyone?

Hi there, bon voyage!!

Hopefully the bold type will catch their eye and I will get a little wave as they leave. Or maybe they are robot trawlers, harvesting images, in which case a grumpy protocol exchange is the best I can expect.

Into the postbag!

Q1 “Why do you call yourself Wordsmith? I thought it must be because you are an author or especially skilled  writer, but then I read your blog”


Yes, thank you notspankedenough of Tunbridge Wells. Clearly you were more skilled than me in choosing an appropriate blogging name. The simple answer is that it was an impulsive mistake. This blog is the first thing I have ever written (don’t think you can count software) and it wasn’t supposed to contain more than captions, words thoughtfully “hammered out”. I am thinking of changing it to avoid preconceptions – any suggestions? “Drivelsmith”. Right.

Q2 “Why do you use a picture of a little dog to represent yourself, it’s hardly Toppy”

I like little dogs, cuddleandspank. Another impulse. I have lots of those – this one was good


Q3 ”How do you find time to write your blog?”

I work from home and have my own virtual company which makes real money. Ideal really. Adding things to the blog keeps me from working too much. I used to be a senior R&D executive and travel the globe. Now I earn three times as much in my pyjamas – are you jealous or what spankiftoonosy!! No, I’m not a chatline, no-one would pay me for that (you should see my pyjamas), still R&D

Q5 “You, you, you, you, you. Do you ever show any interest in your readers?”

The post is titled “About Wordsmith”, spankmeImstupid. Just press a reaction button. Oh you can’t. Good.

Now that was plain rude. You're in big trouble...

Q6 “You’re not actually going to say anything interesting, are you? This was just a cynical exercise so you could take some cheap shots at your readers”

So, suddenly we are in on-line chat mode, thanks a bunch spankmelive. OK it’s a fair cop.