Spinneyhead is (nearly) nineteen!


In the build up to New Year, lots of people were posting photos of themselves in 2009 and 2019, and doing mini recaps of the decade. I haven’t done that, because I’m contrary. But I would like to take a trip back in time.

The first post on the Spinneyhead blog is dated January 27, 2001. So the blog turns nineteen this year. I actually thought it was older. The domain has been around longer than that, but most of the content from before I started blogging has been lost to the mists of time.

So, as the first of what may be an ongoing series as I count down to the blog’s twentieth, I thought I’d find posts from New Year’s day (or soon after) from 2001 onwards.

2001’s first post is linked above. There was no NYD post in 2002, because, as I explained the next day, I was unwell (can’t guess why).

By 2003, I’d started using titles for my posts. I listed all the resolutions I would go on to break, and posted one of my personal favourite posts- The World According To Clancy.

2004 opened with a Happy New Year!

New Year 04/05 was conducted out in the wilds, in the days before moblogging was seamless. So there was nothing posted until the 3rd.

2006 started with a very small thumbnail. Then there were more resolutions destined to be unkept.

NYD 2007 saw me looking ahead to my birthday.

2008 opened with a short story.

For NYD 2009, I left a GI Joe figure at Tebay services.

I was still distributing GI Joe figures on NYD 2010, leaving two in Edinburgh (1, 2).

In 2011, all I could muster was a link list that only had one link in it.

In 2012, I didn’t manage to blog until the 3rd. But it was a picture of a friendly penis*, so I demand forgiveness. *Graffiti penis, not a real one.

2013 saw me being lazy, with only a cross post on the 2nd.

2014’s first post was a grainy photo taken in a pub.

2015’s first post wasn’t until the 4th, and was about Creationism and the inevitability of life.

2016’s first post was about some of my 3D printed products, and was recently updated.

Posting has been significantly sparser in the last few years. 2017’s first post wasn’t until January 29th, and was about a letter sent to my local MP. The subject? Brexit, of course.

I managed to post on the 1st in 2018. But looking back on it, I was ridiculously naive to think the political situation might somehow improve.

Last year’s first post was the last part of A Death In Didsbury. Which you probably can’t read unless you’re supporting me on Patreon.

And this year’s first post is this one.

Resolutions have proved pointless in the past, so I’ll just offer a vague hope for things to be better- for me, those I care for, the country, and the world- over the next twelve months.

And for more Nazis to get punched.