Welcome to OTF, Pete. Your blog is excellent, although I don't stop by as often as I should (if I read every blog I like every day, I wouldn't have the time to do anything else).

Mine is two this month, which is some sort of achievement, I guess, though I'm less than certain that it's anything to be proud of. I have to toss up whether to knock it on the head after the Euros, completely revamp it or just keep plodding the same, lonely furrow. I don't really think it works in its current format (being strictly chronological is simultaneously liberating in that I can write about whatever is current, yet at the same time restrictive in that I often feel compelled to write about things that I don't much care for), but I don't have the mental or physical will to do much about it. All I know is that it feels a bit stale at the moment.

As you may have gathered, I have a pretty chronic problem with self-confidence and self-belief. Career-wise, I can only say this: basically, if you ask for advice on the subject, do the absolute polar opposite of what I suggest (if I base it on my own experience).

One final thing (and I'm almost certainly pissing in the wind, here) - EIM, you're an outstanding writer - you really should just knuckle down and write something. I'd be delighted to put up anything that you cared to send me.