I like to flatter myself by thinking I’m embarking a new kind of journalism here: guerrilla blogging with a four-year-old. I pound away at my laptop like a fiend between 8am and 11.45am, when I fetch Gemma from pre-primary, and then sneak in an hour or so in the afternoon when she’s napping — and thinks I am too.

Of course, like most little kids, the thought that other people are having fun while she’s sleeping just kills her. I once caught her sneaking up the passage looking for mischief. She clearly thought I was asleep. When she discovered I wasn’t, all bets were off.

Gemma rustled up dinner while Mommy was blogging.

“I’ll just play quietly in here,” she announced, running off to fetch an armful of plastic dinosaurs. Pretty soon, it was : “Mommy, what’s this one saying?” “Mom, the spikosaurus is fighting the tyrannosaurus rex?” “Moommmm, why are some people scared of brontosauruses? They’re so friendly.”

Here’s a piece on Moneyweb by columnist and actuary Magda Wierzycka about blogging (click here) and how the corporate world has been slow to embrace it. I must say though blogs promoting products and services sound deathly dull. Now, a help line for customers’ complaints would get a lot of action but few companies would have the nerve for that.

Picture courtesy of cool public domain images website of images published prior to 1923.

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