Happy Birthday – Avalon’s Blog is a Year Old.

November 9, 2009 by Avalon
Filed under: The Website

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I made it! One whole year of managing to write blogs, get people to read them, and as it happens – stay out of jail.

Not bad really.

I’ve written 309 posts (this will be 310). Which is not bad I think – given that I’m not Kiwiblog (which posts several a day – and is a hotbed of activity and political argument.) We have also had 544 comments – almost none of which have been nasty, and not all of them have been ours.

We have also blocked a staggering 3558 spam comments. The mind boggles.

The blog has indeed taken on a bit of a life of it’s own. When I started this – it was just going to be a part of a website where I would have my book for sale – and I refused to call it a blog. But before long I had to accept that I was in fact “Blogging” and figured I may as well try and give in with some grace. It was also not the intention to make the blog about the struggle for my parent’s residency. But as the head of INZ refused to accept any responsibility – it became a way of making them responsible, by showing people what they are up to and what they are capable of. I’m rather proud of the fact that this blog comes first in a Google search under “NZIS Complaints”. I can only say it serves them right!

And I certainly never intended to get into politics and start fighting for the right to free speech! But again – who else will do it, and what else could I have done? And I do think it is important that people wanting to move to New Zealand get to see what is really going on – rather than the fluffy advertising – which is often so misleading.

But to be honest – that’s my life all over since coming here. Our lives are not at all what we thought they would be. We never intended to become investors, we never intended to own any property other than the one we lived in, and we never thought we would do so many wacky things – like walking on fire. And writing a book? Well – it’s certainly never been a dream of mine – I can tell you.

I sometimes think that something happens when you emigrate – it’s as if you have proved you can do anything – so you get the chance to do even more.

Anyway – here’s to many more blogs!

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6 Comments on Happy Birthday – Avalon’s Blog is a Year Old.

Doomestic Executive on Tue, 10th Nov 2009 9:29 am

Congratulations on this auspicious milestone. It takes commitment and hard work to keep a blog going let alone take on a public campaign around such important issues as free speech not to mention holding NZ Immigration to account.

Long may your blogging habit continue. JT

William on Tue, 10th Nov 2009 7:12 pm