The Very First Discussion (VFD)

Welcome, people. Welcome to our blog.

So as you may or may not know, Natasha, May and I are going to enter the Ellerslie International Flower Show 2011 (insert tumultuous applause here). This is all tremendously exciting. We hardly know where to begin. There's just so much to do, so much to think about... I forsee great stress/murder in our futures...

And so, in true 21st-century tradition, I've started a blog. I mean, you've just GOT to have a blog. Nothing happens or exists in the world anymore unless there's some lonely freak writing about it in some isolated back corner of the internet. I intend to be that lonely freak. May and Natasha can join me, if they want, and we can have our own little lonely, freaky, online party.

But seriously, I DO have several good reasons why we should have a blog:


1. To provide a place for us to share design ideas with each other. This, I think, would be useful, seeing as Natasha is in India at the moment and it would be a bit tricky to shove a book under her nose and shriek: "Look! Awesome idea!" Also, May lives far, far away from us, and I'm just not prepared to walk all the way to her house every time we come up with something exciting. (I know. I'm lazy. May does this all the time.)

2. To allow other assorted people, who may or may not be interested in what we're doing, to come and read and follow us and see where we're going. Hopefully they are interested; if they are, then I embrace you and cry "Welcome! And thank you for taking the time to come and visit!" If you really are not interested our garden design project and are reading this for obscure reasons of your own, then I hope you have a seriously decent excuse for what I can only imagine would be a severe case of cyber-stalking. But hello to you too, anyway.

3. So we can look back when it's all over and think, gosh, was that what was REALLY going through our minds? Were we mad? Insane? Just incredibly tired? It would be a fascinating psychological study.

4. Being a student, I am well aware of the great need for tools that promote procrastination. Sometimes when you just can't face working, but feel guilty about blatantly wasting time, you need something that makes you FEEL as though you're doing something useful when you're actually not. I think this blog would fulfil this task admirably. I've already "wasted" so much time already just writing this post. At least I know that I've accomplished something today, even if it was just deliberate procrastination. I don't need to feel bad about it. You see the awesome power of the blog?

5. There must be other reasons. There just HAVE to be other reasons. I wanted seven reasons, because seven is an auspicious number. It's supposed to be MAGICAL! (Actually, it dates back to ancient Mesopotamia, where it was the number that represented the gods. It was then transferred through many cultures over many centuries to the modern age, picking up other bits of superstitious meaning along the way: for example, in British folklore the Queen of the Fairies pays a visit to Hell every seven years, being the seventh son of a seventh son is lucky, and, most recently, in Harry Potter, where Voldermort splits his soul into seven. Bet you didn't know - or care - about that.) When writing lists there must be either three points (another good number), or a multiple of five, or seven. This is the only symptom of OC I have, luckily. Or do enjoying writing lists and alphabetising my books count too??? I am seriously disturbed.

Well, I think that's enough babbling for now. Come back and read, people, if you wish to be babbled at some more.

Love,

Zara.