It’s been 5 years since I updated my blog header so you’d be forgiven for thinking the baby in the field of sunny yellow rape seed flowers is Luca rather than Euan. Now that E is a boy with an allotment patch it’s time to update the header to reflect his lovely involvement in the plot.

I created this new header last year but hadn’t been able to upload it without it cropping and distorting.  I’d been trying to puzzle out how to do that when it slowly dawned on me that I should be thinking about refreshing the whole design. This new header doesn’t really reflect where I’m at with writing these days as gardening and cooking are no longer the mainstay of my content and I have two boys not one to share stories about.

I chose the Blix theme when I first logged into WordPress nearly 10 years ago and I’ve been fearful about making changes in case I preferred it the way it was or all the formatting looked wrong.  More recently though I’ve really been questioning whether to keep blogging and having decided to keep writing I need to let go of my fears and take up the challenge of learning to do things differently.  The lovely Happiness Engineers at WordPress assure me I won’t lose any information and with a job title like that you’re gonna trust them aren’t you.  I’ve been reading up on how to make improvements to my blog and it turns out I’ve been making a rookie error all these years by just using nice pictures of the boys in my header. It’s funny how you don’t see what’s right in front of you until you start looking with fresh eyes so despite my hits counter being over 400k visitors to my blog would would be hard pushed to work out where they have arrived. G laughed when I told him about my blog name being missing from my header and I knew why immediately – introverts don’t tend to want to draw attention to themselves and what may have been a shy, albeit conscious decision 10 years ago, is now a bit of a daft oversight!  Woops! Thank goodness for other bloggers who write helpful PDFs about how to navigate all this stuff, I’m off to do a spot of reading and find some dutch courage to put myself out there a bit more …