Hey, everyone look! It’s a shoe on a bin!
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Sigh. Well, what did you expect? When you’re pulling four different posts each month, every month, you will occasionally draw a blank. I’ve been knocking these out relentlessly for years now and you’d think it would get easier, but it doesn’t. You go to your phone to find some inspiration (a photo you’ve taken, an article you’ve been reading etc.) and you come up with nothing. What’s the alternative though? Do “a Kev” and scrape a bean once every twelve months?
People want content. Websites need new content. What would our fans (?) do without new things to read and interact with? We have an obligation as content creators (?) to pull more and more things out of our respective backsides to fill empty space. Empty space is similar to dead air; nobody wants it. They also say the same things about my self-help books.
I did briefly consider other options for this photo. If it were necessary to develop it into something more constructive then I could have:
- Pretended to be the owner of the shoe and sent out a request for the other to be returned
- Written a ransom note as the kidnapper of the shoe
- Created a fake dating profile for the shoe looking for a partner
- Another thing (the best thing).
What kind of a person would I be? I need to try harder. I can do much better. For this month I will therefore only be posting shoe-based content. November is the month of shoes. It’s not as if you can think any less of me, right?
… right?
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Choppington Parish Council? That’s not real. That’s a made up place name from a low budget daytime drama series. It lacks all credibility.
It could be the name of a fictional town in a terrible Hallmark film where a plucky young newscaster, desperate to become top newscaster, has to follow a story of a hunky widower who likes being nice to everyone and helping everyone with everything because he has all the time in the world to help despite also being a carpenter and running the local inn.
It could definitely be that. Or the setting for a Cbeebies show with lots of songs and characters who always wear the same colour every day.
“What’s the news in Choppington today?
Who will we see down Choppington way?
Bobby the Farmer or Sadie the dog
Bella the vet looking after a frog
Everyone’s friends, just look around
When you drop in to Choppington town”
It does, doesn’t it? Shame nobody makes kids TV anymore otherwise we’d have a million dollar idea right there.
I could have been Bella the Vet.
And Kev could have been Sadie the dog. She’s the world’s first self-grooming poodle.