Every so often, I dive into the archive of my blogs on the Other Side with a view to saving them across to my WordPress site. For the avoidance of doubt, and, in my own opinion, this is not because the world would be a poorer place if MyT (Beta) went belly up and lost all of my carefully crafted prose to posterity.
It’s just that I enjoyed writing them at the time and hope to enjoy reading them again in the future, even if I might, by then, have forgotten that I wrote them.
Most of them are private on my WordPress site, but there’s the odd one that I feel the need to share with my fellow cherished authors. This one is a case in point.
One year into MyT, Shane invited comments on the ‘journey’ which it had been for us all. Some of said comments were published in the DT. Even in those days, there were very few MyT bloggers who actually bought the printed version.
This Danish blogger posted a despairing plea to anybody who could let him have a copy. I hardly knew the man then but I made the effort. It was not a very good effort, to be fair, but I did my best. Here’s what I posted for him on May 12th 2008.
- For Janus
‘I am sure that somebody will do a better job, but here’s my attempt.
Happy Birthday MyT
I’m afraid I’ve done a bit of censoring. The top half of the article is a lovely big picture of Shane with a piece telling us how wonderful the MyT website is and how it’s going to be even better soon.
I didn’t think you’d be too bothered about that bit being missed out.’
I still miss beanbean.
Boadicea's Chariot 
A shame you spilt your breakfast Darjeerling before you turned your mobile on. 😎
May you be forgiven, Bearsy,
1. If it’s not coffee at breakfast, it would be China tea. I don’t do Indian.
2. Mobile phones are the creation of Satan and I shun them.
3. I’d only just bought the digital camera and had not quite worked out how to use it then. I spread the DT on top of the piano and did my best. I think that you will find that I did apologise for it not being very good.
4. Before you pick me up on 3., it’s a boudoir grand piano and not an upright so there is plenty of room to spread a DT on it, if the top is down.
Oh, for Gawd’s sake, Guv’nor – it were merely a mild quip.
I’m sure the JM breakfasting hall has plenty of room for grand pianos, top-of-the-range digital cameras with superb German lenses and the finest range of coffees and China teas that Fortnums can provide.
I’ll doff my flat-cap and touch my forelock as I slink out of the servant’s entrance in disgrace.
Bearsy, I feel that we need to develop an International Joshing Standard (IJS) here, for the avoidance of doubt and/or the taking of offence.
The particulars of where and when I took the photograph are true in every respect. New digital camera with which I was unfamiliar. It really was taken on top of Mrs M’s boudoir grand piano which had been left to her by her piano-teaching granny and which has been our constant companion throughout the four houses which we have shared in our married life.
Don’t even get me started about the Colony house which was Number 2 and also nearly the last when said piano got stuck on the outside stair. I got seriously blamed for hiring the removal men involved
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_houses
Tee hee – a conversion database between Strine Barracking and Jockanese Joshing, complete with insult severity assessment plug-ins and dynamic offence-meters calibrated in both milli-Pontings and deci-Whites. Do you think Donald might accept the subcontract? 😆
JM, thanks! I remember it well. Btw, Bearsy is just envious of our history. 🙂
Hmmm – We would need the Universal Constant as a standard … Perhaps a Fudge Factor in favor of the Aussies due to Sub-Cortex Sublimability ….perhaps a “Blushmeter” as the base minimum. Hmmmm 😦
Good morning JM.
It would be interesting to see what comments they get today were a similar survey to be conducted 😉
I was there Janus, well before both of you. 😀
Have you forgotten “Shame”?
I trawled a number of sites before settling on ‘MyT’, which has become a tremendous ‘lost opportunity’ for The Telegraph. So many enjoyable bloggers left (including phil slocombe)!
No! No! Spare me from the dreaded Slocombe! He had multiple IDs down to a fine art… but possibly the less said about that the better!
Slocombe used to annoy me with his belated reports of sporting events which anyone who was really interested in would have watched on TV or read about on-line. He liked to pose as an expert, as I recall. Perhaps I’m just being crabbit, suffering from withdrawal symptoms due to the cancellation of the Bahrein GP and another week to wait for the Australian one.
I’d get a new doctor, if I were you. 😆
Shall I laugh or groan, Bearsy?
I have a horrible feeling that I’ve said it before, Sheona, and it wasn’t too smart the first time. Please ignore my senile perseveration. 😦
Hi, pb.
I arrived on the site at the tail end of the great Slocombe stushie just after MyT had disabled the Hot Topic button to stop the many-headed hydra that was HWMNBN being Top Blog all the time.
Happy days but, being a newbie, I probably did never quite grasp the various nuances and subtleties of the enmities and alliances that were forged in those halcyon days. What was the name of the couple who had flounced? I remember them being discussed at great length but their account had been completely expunged by Shane, at their request, by the time I first logged on.
Whatever, it was a fine site then and I will, therefore, always have affection for MyT, come what may.
I joined MyT on the 3rd day it was up. There was some good times and good bloggers — Fernandez, WW, The Antipodean Ursine One, the Queen of the Iceni, usw. Yes, I also remember the wars with, to use Janus’ term for him, Cum Slow Feel and the West China double-trouble. I remember those halcyon days, but they remain a mere memory shrouded in the mists of time.
… and RichardB Jnr from La Jolla. You, I and Richard interacted ‘considerably’ on my mischievous post about Americans taking the site over with long-winded monologues. “Ah yes, I remember it well …”
Yes. Shame.