B-Side 2 Years

It’s 2 years since the summer day when, after finishing my final exams, I was officially launching B-Side Blog from my hammock at the Youth Centre.

The blog changed and grew with me and it will continue to change and grow with me.

When I came to the UK, I started The Adventures of the Muddy Shoes and today I will be posting the 669th adventure.

I also have my own domain now. If you type bside.blog into your browser you’ll come straight to me.

I have a new logo that combines the Muddy Shoes with the Fox that came to represent me. (Made by the one and only Ragnar whose contact details are on the new About Us page.)

The site also looks a lot better and more organised thanks to V.

My pics are fancier since Jeanine is here and we have a pop-up living-room studio.

And, last but not least, B-Side is finally functioning as a proper bilingual blog - you can change the language whenever you want and it should work (if it ever doesn’t, just let me know, it probably means I didn’t put something in the right category).

Last year I wrote some conclusions that might help those who want to start their blogs:

https://www.bside.blog/post/about-blogging-one-year-of-b-side-blog

I think it’s so cool that I have this place where I store all my thoughts and experiences. Sometimes I scroll on Instagram where my Muddy Shoes are and I have a full documentary about the pandemic - my parents’ visit before the lockdown, an empty McDonalds, empty shelves, the joy of going outside for the tiniest things, and so on. I was also looking through my old articles (to make them work as bilingual) and I got to see how my writing and my thought process has changed. I have articles for all the milestones that marked my development so far.

However, I need to be better organised. Sometimes I write 4 or 5 articles in a month, but then I let months pass with no full-length articles. I need to create an article writing routine.

Looking back at the last 2 years, I don’t regret making my life public.

I know for a fact that it’s helping me and I’ve also heard other people saying that they feel inspired by my work or that they simply enjoy reading what I write. I try to be honest and tell it all like it is. I don’t go out of my way to write my daily Muddy Shoes - some days are exciting, but some days I feel tired, and some days are simply boring, so I will just write about that. This is the life.

I have a pretty blog now. So I won’t write more for this article. Instead, I invite you to take a walk through my old posts and read about the past 4 years of my life.

*Please note that not all the old articles are available in English yet, but at some point, I’ll translate those as well.