Introduction
Journal
Volume One
REGULAR VISITORS will know of the formal Liverpool Dispatches. They’re popular, running to eleven volumes, with Volume 12 commencing on January 1, 2022.
A blog is defined in the Cambridge dictionary as “a regular record of your thoughts, opinions, or experiences that you put on the Internet for other people to read”.
Although I prefer the term “regular record” to the term ‘blog’, the Blog has become the 21st Century’s equivalent to the open diary of earlier centuries.
Most of us keep diaries, even if it’s simply as a reminder of appointments. What often surprises us, though, is when we look back at the appointment diary about to be replaced, to find jottings and commentary that we’d never intended but which, somehow, don the cloak of archival; so we pop them into a shoe box, or onto a part of a shelf not too prominent, but nevertheless, not completely hidden.
As we grow older we see their value even more. Half a century on, probably after we have departed, our family, and later our descendants, obtain that ‘feel’, that ‘knowing’ us, even though they never met us.
Unimportant in life, as ancestors we seem to take on new importance. Here is just part of the pleasure and interest in the subject of archive.
I envy the archivist, because a professional archivist has obtained many qualifications in order to attain that post, and it is not as some might think, ‘something of a doddle’.
I do not always need to write formally - as in the dispatch - so this is the purpose of this journal, but unlike the Dispatches, Moments from History, A Thousand Dimensions, Poetry and the Notes from Germany - Nachrichten aus Deutschland - the journal is not numbered. The volumes are yearly, the entries simply by date.
A note, if I may, to the one or two who have said I’ve wrongly dated an article; that I am ahead of myself. Ah-ha! Indeed. Yes, but whilst there is only one hour’s difference between London and Berlin, in Auckland it is already just gone 4am in New Zealand on Sunday November 1st, and likewise in Melbourne, Australia, just past 2am.
It is quite a thrill to find that this website now outreaches to upwards of 87 countries,[i] and I thank all of you for your support and encouragement.
Kenneth Thomas Webb
Liverpool and Gloucestershire
May 28, 2022
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United Kingdom - Ukraine - Denmark - Germany - Australia - New Zealand - Canada - USA
© Kenneth Thomas Webb 2022
One of the Fifteen Founding Members of the Leaders Lodge
Journal Entry September 1, 2020
[i] 87 countries as at May 30, 2022
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
