Fingers and pies
Hi think I want to have my fingers in a lot of pies. This phrase now makes people feel a little sick and we all know why. It’s taken on new meaning.
However, I want my fingers in lots of pies for a few reasons, firstly being that variety is the spice of life (oh Jesus another idiom!) and I want my life to be full of productive and interesting elements (life’s rich tapestry??), and secondly in these somewhat disturbing times of economic insecurity, I feel I need as much as possible to fall back on should the shit hit the fan. Maybe adding well known British phrases into blogs could be one of my fingers or even a whole pie?
At the same time, the last thing I want is to be a jack of all trades and a master of none, I mean spreading one’s self too thin can be what makes people generally unsuccessful as they are middle of the road all-rounders rather than being masters of their chosen trade. However being such a master of one trade could mean that you could be ignorant to the wider world and also cause you to be socially inept.
As I probably am a bit of an all-rounder, I’m gonna try the fingers and pies theory due to the clear fact that variety is indeed the spice of life. Not too many pies though, that would be crazy. I mean, I need to relax too. But is this how I relax? The work/life crossover lines are so very blurry now, I’m not even sure.
After this introduction, anyone reading this will think that this bloke is far from suitable to write a Harrogate based online magazine aimed at Harrogate residents, though that’s exactly what me and my great friend and writing partner Ian D Marshall are going to do. I suppose that by using a letter in his pen name, Ian thinks he’ll be portraying the same image of high culture, intrigue and intelligence as maybe W. Somerset Maugham or Reginald D Hunter. I see him more as the bloke I know who’s throat closes up and goes into anaphylactic shock when he eats a nut.
This is not Ian. It's Reginald D Hunter
Really, Ian is a great writer, possibly the best photographer in the Harrogate area, a sound businessman, has a huge consumption of music, arts and culture and is generally a great bloke. He also seems to have his fingers in a lot of pies then … and maybe all of us do and I’m think way to much about fingers and pies?
Anyway for all the reason above, Ian and I are going to try to provide the people of Harrogate with our own take on what’s going on in and around Harrogate and what’s sparking our interest in general. We’ll do the usual stuff like gigs, restaurants, what’s on, etc but we’ll also just spout our thoughts and feelings of what it’s like to be from this area and what gets our goats or tickles our fancies (barf!). We don’t really know much else yet so it will be totally organic and the main thing is that it will be for fun, for us, for the people of Harrogate and just for the hell of it. I’m sure there’s a rich seam of intelligent young(ish) culture vultures out there who don’t take themselves too seriously whom we can interact with and maybe one day work together to make something really really lovely.
There’ll be plenty of contributing writers to the website/magazine too so if you’re interested give us a nudge and get on board. Keep you posted.
Oh and it’s called STRAYWORDS. Tell your friends