I’ve made a decision that I think I needed to make a long time ago regarding my blogging activity. No, don’t worry, the Blessham Hall Blog isn’t going anywhere, but it is going to see a major change.

Regular readers will know that I often make references to my overall health which isn’t good due to the ever presence of fibromyalgia. That particular condition is bad enough itself but it’s compounded by Depressive Anxiety Disorder, Vertigo and Sleep Apnoea. In short, I’m a wretched, echoing void of a man most of the time.

But here’s the thing, I’ve woken up to the fact that you probably don’t need to hear all that on a regular basis. Heck, we’ve all got enough problems of our own without reading about someone else’s which isn’t going to enhance our existence in any way. I mean, if I had to sit and read about somebody else’s lumbago or how the screaming habdabs affects them from day to day then I’d probably go stark staring mad.

Unless…

Unless of course I wanted to read about lumbago or the screaming habdabs (yes, there is such a thing) in which case I would be utterly delighted to stumble across such a blog.

So here’s the deal. I’m not going to talk about my health problems any more on the Blessham Hall blog unless merely as an excuse for my own piss-poor performance. It does come in handy for that. What I’m going to do instead is start a brand-new blog strictly for fibromyalgia and it’s related conditions where people who do have FMS or ME or CFS, yadda-yadda-yadda, can get some encouragement, advice and maybe a bit of a laugh as well along the way.

It’ll be a place where I can unload my health issues without yanking the respective chains of my regular readers. I can almost hear the collective sigh of relief from you all. Like a warm breeze wafting across the rolling landscape of my subconscious. Gosh, that was a load of old bollocks, wasn’t it?

But! I also hear you say. Are you physically up to doing two blogs Stevenson, you overweight sack of offal with an hyperactive spleen? Can you write two blogs and still write novels at the same time?

In short, yes, I think I can. I’ll still aim to do Blessham Hall at least once a week and fit the new FMS blog in whenever I can, be it once a month or every two months or whatever. Hey! It’ll give me a greater sense of purpose of nothing else.

And I really have been working very hard on my time management lately. I schedule in novel writing time, blogging time, reading time, researching time and resting time. And so far it’s going ok, with the occasional and expected bump in the road every now and then.

I’ve got a name for the new blog but I’ll hold fire from telling you just for now until I’ve got it set up properly. I also need to come up with some kind of artwork for it but I’ll probably ask my granddaughter, Erin, to assist with that as she really is the most extraordinarily gifted young lady when it comes to drawing. And yes, we are very proud grandparents.

So there you go. Less of me moaning about my physical well-being and more of the stuff that matters on this here blog. All I would ask of you is that when I do post a link to my new blog that you would direct anyone you think it would help out towards it.