{"id":2767,"date":"2014-05-18T01:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-18T01:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/?p=2767"},"modified":"2014-05-18T06:26:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T06:26:22","slug":"dblogweek2014-day-7-my-favourite-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circles-of-blue.winchcombe.org\/index.php\/2014\/05\/18\/dblogweek2014-day-7-my-favourite-things\/","title":{"rendered":"#DblogWeek 2014 Day 7 – My Favourite (#DblogWeek) Things"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dblog<\/a>Sunday’s topic:<\/strong> As we wrap up another Diabetes Blog Week, let\u2019s share a few of our favou<\/b>rite things from the week. This can be anything from a #DBlogWeek post you loved, a fantastic new-to-you blog you found, a picture someone included in a post that spoke to you, or comment left on your blog that made you smile. Anything you liked is worth sharing!<\/p>\n

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\"DblogweekAll of the newest things I’ve found and loved have come from #DBlogWeek itself.<\/p>\n

I love how some people have starting blogging because of #DBlogWeek and they’ve made such great starts I hope they continue. I’d like to single out Diane for this and her brand new blog: “My 1st ever Blog”<\/a>. Kate too had only blogged twice before launching into a full week of blogging for #DBlogWeek: katet1d’s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I love how some others who’d blogged a little before have really gone for it this week. For this I’ll single out Jules who’s had a pretty crap time recently but is always full of fun and laughter and this comes through in her blog, especially the line in Mantras and More<\/a>: ‘I\u2019ve got the wrong mirror in my house. Mine belongs to a dowdy middle aged chubster, not me!<\/em>‘. That had me giggling for a while, mainly because I share the same mirror problems \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I’ve found a renewed zest for blogging. The early Circles of Blue articles were hard to write as they dealt with diagnosis<\/a>, but as hard as they were I felt better by writing them. More recently I’ve just been reporting on events\/products and whilst some of these – especially the Accu-chek Insight pump page<\/a> – have turned out to be my most visited pages writing them didn’t give me much satisfaction. I think it’s fair to say this week has been a revelation for me.<\/p>\n

I think I may write the odd poem too. I can’t tell you how nervous I was to release Tuesday’s poem “A Childhood All Gone”<\/a> but it turned out to be the single-most favourited, retweeted and commented on article I’ve written. I spent all day apologising for making people cry – even though they told me I didn’t need to – and I’ve had people ask to be able to print it out for their clinic – of course you can – for others to read. I was pretty much overwhelmed the whole day. The last person who probably read it was Amy herself; she approved…phew! <\/p>\n

Lastly, I’m amazed by Karen Graffeo<\/a>. Not only has she grown #DBlogWeek to 200 worldwide bloggers, she seems to find time to read as many of the blogs as possible and comment on them, giving praise and encouragement. Here’s a couple she left me.<\/p>\n

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