Sat in the managers office at work, we were discussing targets, incentives and customer satisfaction...all very mundane. In passing someone made a comment about social media, which lead to the mocking of silly hashtags that we are all guilty of using in our posts online. The comment aimed at me was #lookwhatfancybeerimhaving ... at this point I began to tell my colleagues about the Tonights Tipple blog and how I enjoyed rambling on about my favourite beers & spirits. It is safe to say that I was surprised that when I began to 'show off' my site I found that I had not published a blog in over 12 months !
Looking back to last May, I had a plan in place for future blogs that I could write and the different beers that I wanted to try. Whilst looking at my stat's on Blogger I asked myself the question 'does anyone actually read my blog, and does anyone even care what I have to say?' ... this was the stage where I decided to just focus on posting on Instagram and commenting on pictures from the craft beer community on Twitter. When you look at my statistics though, it does show a fair old amount of traffic to my page...how much of that is genuine, I don't know.
Following our meeting when I presented my 'musings' to my colleagues I began to think, 'does it really matter if anyone takes on any of my recommendations or not?' - we all work really hard and focus so much on our careers that sometimes we forget the importance of having a hobby, when I was at the height of my 'blogging' I had a great time sampling new tipples and telling the world whether it was to my taste or not. With the stress of a house move back with the inlaws whilst we save for a mortgage and increase of work load in the office I have decided to get back to treating myself to new craft beers weekly!
So from this moment I am back on my social media feeds and back with the blogs...watch this space, many more boozy musings are to come!
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