Welcome to 2011

Maltese knight

I had great intentions, really I did. I was going to write from my parents' house like a "real", hard core blogger.

It didn't quite work out that way: my internet access was sporadic at best and certainly not for any length of time. I ended up negotiating familial relations, battling passive - aggressiveness (and on occasion actual aggression) and watching my beautiful baby turn into a tantrum-y toddler (under the watchful gaze of both sets of grandparents) before my eyes. So yeah, blogging wasn't a high priority.

But it's January now - a brand new year. As most people know, I love a good make over and have some ideas about the direction of SadieBelle. We've been dormant for so long and, with the reawakening of the blog, we are experiencing some growing pains and are looking for direction.

Anti Tory sign in Marchmont

Among my blogging resolutions is to be a better or, at the very least  a more consistent poster. Another resolution regarding this blog is keep having local photos of Edinburgh. One thing I've been very proud of is the images I've taken with my little phone as I've wandered around the streets (picture me with a buggy, decked out in my parka and you've got a pretty good mental picture of how that looks: crazy). I'd like to keep up the Edinburgh - ness that this blog is beginning to have, that is to say a real sense of location and of place (all the while acknowledging that I'm very much a newcomer here) while keeping it very much where I started: someone who wanted to rant from the safety of her computer. More to come. Happy New Year!