Although I started my blog https://francesmacaulayforde.wordpress.com/ in 2011, I didn’t really get into it until two years later and although I enjoy it, it has a limited audience. My daughter has a blog where she showcases her art and fascinators: http://jessicamccallum.blogspot.com.au My sister-in-law started her blog http://perthdailyphoto.blogspot.com.au/ the same year I started mine. However, she has been consistently showcasing Perth, Western Australia, won a Best Travel Blog and had over a million hits! Her husband, my brother has a SoundCloud ‘blog’ where he shares his original music https://soundcloud.com/fordedotpaddy/ Their daughter has a photographic blog: http://lifesallaboutthelittlethings.blogspot.com.au/ and her brother-in-law is a diving fanatic so showcases his diving in West Australian waters via http://billsdiving.blogspot.com.au/ So yes, I guess it does run in families.
I’d love to know to what extent blogging runs in families. I know about 3 pairs of sisters who blog, 3 mothers and sons; 2 mothers and daughters and I think that’s it.
Maybe it’s just that I’m not moving in the right circles to find the families, or maybe I know them individually and haven’t put one and one or two and two together ( that always reminds of the card game ‘Fish in the Pond.’ Do you remember it? )
There is the little matter that there can be a sense that there is only room for one blogger in a family ~ a bit like one photographer.
I think my late mother would probably have got into blogging if it had been around in her day. She wrote a lot for publication and broadcasting and loved being part of a ‘community of writers.’ I often think of…
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