If invited, would you live in a log cabin - in your son's garden...?

merlotgran I don't doubt that, but you have posted many things on many other threads so you use GN for all sorts of reasons, as do other people. As far as I can see the OP just wanted us all to tell her she was wonderful and promote her proposed blog.

Bloggers can make money if their blog is successful as it will attract advertising but I see nothing wrong at present with the OP trying to drum up interest in her log cabin. No one is fooled trisher - we've seen it all before.

There're any number of posters who don't contribute to threads outside their own self-interest e.g. the professional 'compers' (who seem to win most of the prizes) they're the ones who get up my goat!

Dee I'm just wondering why you haven't started the blog yet? In your OP you say the cabin and blog are under construction - I would have thought a cabin takes longer!

Have you not missed the boat a bit - the interesting bits, decision, construction, media interviews have now happened?

I see GN has returned to its default position.... suspicion. There are presently 4 seperate postings re a Binatone phone, and another one about a type of easy chair...... how to we know they are not trawling for publicity? Someone from the company's advertising dept. signs up with a request for recommendation for x product and half a dozen colleagues sign up simultaneously and say how good X is.Simples!
Also ,having blogged seriously for 7 or 8 years, I can assure Trisher you have to get a hell of a lot of 'clicks' (at less than a cent a click) to make anything at alll . It certainly can't be classed as a form of income.

Blogging seriously isn't necessarily successfully willsmadnan. There're benefits in kind sometimes. I see no reason why questions shouldn't be asked. As for "suspicious' isn't that what us 'old people' are encouraged to be? Aren't we supposed to be too trusting and easily scammed.

I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill, trisher.

Well all the people who keep answering me are helping!