A good idea In Retrospect

You may remember within my Easter post last month the tempter of a comment I made about an upcoming "exciting project" that I had been working on.  Well, I'm delighted to be in a position now to reveal all!

Yes, I am now a contributor to a wonderful new vintage magazine(!!) called:

In Retrospect

Co-created by Mat from Tales of a Southern Retro, In Retrospect quite rightly describes itself as "a modern magazine for old-fashioned people" and is chock-full of fascinating articles written by some of the best, most well-known vintage bloggers in Britain (and me!) including Missy Vintage, Norton Of Morton, Old Fashioned Susie and The Forties Floozy.  I think you'll agree that it's a very welcome and well-presented addition to the vintage scene and I'm thrilled beyond words to be a part of it.

Currently In Retrospect is available online only (and only free until tomorrow so hurry if you want to get a look at it for nowt! - apologies for the short notice but I've been away for most of the weekend) but with any luck the next issue will be on a shelf in a (British, sorry again international readers!) newsagent near you before too long.

Until then, pop over to the site, have a look round (do please spread the word too) and let me know what you think! 

In the absence of news...

Hello, it's gone all quiet again!

I'm afraid the first two weeks of the month are sometimes very busy ones here at Partington-Plans Towers and often seem to coincide with a dearth of interesting news - many apologies once again for the lack of movement from this corner of the Internet!  I really do hope to have new things to blog about very soon and this little post is by way of getting me back into the swing of bashing something out on the old keyboard.

Sometimes it can be a little difficult, after more than a week of bloglessness, to summon up the vim to get going again.  But I'm always glad to come back to it in the end as the creative juices start swiftly flowing again.  I really do enjoy keeping this little blog - I wouldn't have [virtually] met all you nice people and had my vintage world so wonderfully, continually enhanced for one thing - with all the opportunities it has given me to write about and share with you all the aspects of the past that fascinate me. 

Speaking of fascinating aspects, do feel free to tell me about any interesting titbits of news you may have seen yourself that you think might fit in on here - or any other subjects you'd like to see me cover in the future.  I've had a couple of posts suggested to me by readers and fellow vintage bloggers in the past and this latest lull in proceedings strikes me as just the right time to put out the rallying call.  Don't be shy; I bet there have been times when you've thought "that's just the kind of thing Bruce would write about".  Or maybe not.  Either way I'm always open to suggestions, poised and ready to go!

In the meantime I'll continue to scour my various sources for any items of interest and maybe think of a few more topics of my own to throw into the mix.  My thanks as always to you, my loyal readers/followers, for taking the time out of your day to read my witterings which I hope will always be of some interest.   I value your comments, input and the sense of genuine friendship that pervades the vintage blogosphere.  I'm glad to continue to be a part of that.

100 up!

I'm pleased to say that this very post marks my one hundredth such epistle since I first dipped my æthereal toe in the then-murky waters of blogdom back in November 2009.

As I recall I jocularly predicted at the time that this blog would either set the Internet alight with wonder and brilliance or else sink without a trace in less than month.

Well I am pleased to say that the latter instance did not occur and I am still here 7 months later blogging away happily, having very definitely caught the bug. Total World-Wide-Webbular domination is not yet on the cards though, I'm afraid!

When I set out to start this blog I wisely kept to something straightforward that even a semi IT-literate amateur such as myself could maintain and I'm pleased to see it working so well. I always felt that there was the opportunity for a chronicle of cheery, interesting and [predominately] vintage-related news items and such has proven to be the case. I have also had my eyes opened to a whole new world of like-minded blogs, events, and people that I may never have otherwise come across, so it has all been most definitely worth it.

I must extend my gratitude to the news sites I get the stories from, particularly The Daily Telegraph and the BBC - without them I almost certainly wouldn't have a blog. Last but by no means least I would like to thank the 8 people (so far - there's plenty of room for more!) who have taken the time to follow my random postings - thank you for making me feel like I'm actually passing on stories over the wires rather than just rambling away to myself in vain.

Here's to the next 100 posts and many more besides; I hope that you will continue to read with me all the amusing, light-hearted and interesting articles that are still to come.