Ugh. Things seem to be getting smelly around here. The drafts folder is like the newly defrosted refrigerator at home and lies barren and squeaky clean. The homepage had to go without new clothes on Diwali and Halloween. It wasn’t taken out to shop even when it had to wear the same set of pajamas for more than a fortnight at a stretch.
My sincere apologies to you, Saddi Delhi. I have been neglecting your needs for quite a while now. But trust me won’t you, when I say it wasn’t intentional. After the latest Blogadda book was dealt with, the windows to you shut all at once. And even the statistics-checking-devil inside me couldn’t do much to force them open. The cobwebs were allowed to settle and the cockroaches, it seems, ate into your comments revenue.
To add to the mess, that inbox has been overflowing with e-mails. Blog subscriptions – alluring titles that say “Blueberry pie in autumn” and “A Nonsensical Post”, to name just a few, have gone unattended. Contests that promised me iPads and cellphones have raced to their respective deadlines. Even the Letters To My Love scenario has suffered. Scores of photographs wait to be sent, Durga Puja remainders crib… and you know, all that jazz. My sincere apologies go out to all the good people associated with these frontiers.
Saddi Delhi-ite is currently in a rush of sorts. And it’s a rush that promises to continue till the first half of December is done. But, I promise that before Delhi dives into its Christmas cushions and prepares to bid the year goodbye, I am going to start major housekeeping around here. To make up for all this lost time, things here will again be fully functional and at an increased pace at that.
A couple of weeks more and then, the closed-apartment-like-stink of this place will be gone. That red chilly will be back with its quota of stories and tales. I will get to read what has been transpiring in the lives of my fellow bloggers and do up that mess of a mailbox in shiny new colours.
And by then, God willing, the lanes outside my window will be magnificently sunlit and Good Luck Cafe will be baking its first lot of morning buns.
Touche.
thanx for the nod on blueberry pie, loved your style of writing, waiting for ur next post…
Thank you!! Next post is up…Saddi Delhi demands attention after the period of negligence. 😀
Deboshree you are a awesome writer. And same from me. You are gain welcome back. Man don’t disappear for long time. Keep writing.
Hey Mahiraj, welcome to Saddi Delhi!
Thanks a lot… I will try to wipe the blog-neglect away – for good. 🙂
welcome back Deboshree 🙂
hope you can keep on working on your almost neglected blog, it would be a shame to neglect such wonderful blog.
I wonder how you find writing contest through the net, I would love to try writing for a contest too
Thanks a lot Novroz! 😀 I will try my best to rejuvenate this place and remove the scar of neglect that it had started developing.
You can check out blogging hubs such as Blogadda and Indiblogger. They generally host these contests as a part of brand promotion, or for say, a certain major festival. Writing for them is good exposure and a whole lot of fun. Go ahead!
I will try 🙂
You have the full link? as in .com or.net?
Yep. Try Blogadda and Indiblogger
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Thank you 🙂 I’ll bookmark those sites now
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For this alone, your blog loves you:)
Come back soon!
Aww! 🙂 Thanks PV… I have. 😀
Good to have you back. Look forward in reading more stuff here
Hey thanks for being around here despite the drought. 😀
…promise to bring in lots of new stuff!
Finally you are back… Its good to see you post after so long…. 🙂
Thanks a lot T. Seriously, feels good to me too. 😀
welcome back!!.. dont go missing again!! 😀
its good to see you writing again! 🙂
Hey! Thanks a lot Pixie! 😀
Yeah I hope to complete all the oiling and servicing on this place soon. 😀
🙂 🙂 Ha ha ha….. Madam you need to make amends. 😉 😉 In the month of December I expect a post from you each day 😉
Deal Chhavi. 😉 I promise to deliver before the deadlines each day. 😀
I have been going throw this phase so often, of late, I can completely relate to you. I just feel guilty for neglecting my blog & readers and then days just fly past in a haze. I hope your housekeeping happens soon & we can all enjoy your work again.
Hey Rituparna! 🙂
Totally…when time starts flying, it doesn’t give you a moment to breathe. Things have been crazy around here the past few months and I am longing to be able to spend hours on writing again. Touche.
Better late than never. It’s not a problem if you remember to pen some stories at least twice a month. This is what I practice for my blog these days and overcome the guilt feeling of ignoring my blog.
That’s a good tip Aditya. In my case though, working at the blog would have caused more guilt. 😀 In December though, I will be hopefully be able to again spend time on what I love most.
Better late than never. It’s not
Oh ya! The lal mirchi is good only with all the tales and stories, and not the shut windows 😉
Welcome back and pls stay 😀
Thanks a lot Swaram. I also hope that I will soon be back at cooking spicy stories with that lal mirchi once again. 😀
Welcome back sweetie 🙂
looks like we took a break from blogging together 🙂
What to do..great people think alike 😉 😉
Thanks Bhavia! 😀
Ooh la la, I totally agree. You couldn’t have put that more precisely. 😉
Aha so we get to hear from u. Good good, and thanks
TC
Hey Bhagyareema… 😀 you take care too!
Yeah, I was wondering too what’s keeping you away from the blog. Glad to hear from you again.
Thanks Jyoti. Good to hear from you too. Hope you are doing fine. 🙂
Ah ha.. And I thought you did not like my blog anymo. Good tosee you back…
Amd take care all yhe best….
Ha ha…no way Bikram. The old blogging loyalties very much remain. 🙂 Actually, I was starting to wonder on those lines. Err.
Thanks a lot!
Yay ! You’re back. I was beginning to wonder where you had disappeared to. Seriously. Will wait till for your housekeeping to get done.
And, ahem, my blog also misses your attention. Nudge, wink, cough. 😀
Hey Sudha! Good to hear from you. About your blog – I tell you, it came in my dream the other day and was making such a smug face saying I had no idea what goodies I was missing. Since that night, I have a mental note about reading up all the goodies. 😉