Welcome to Fusspots… why are we here?

I’m finally here, talking to you. I’ve wanted to do this for some time and I spent the last few days looking at various CMS (content management systems) in order to do so. So far WordPress has won out in the easy-to-get-started-awards (as far as blogs go anyway). My intention, originally, was to create a website to advertise all the wonderful creations and services of various family and friends who have their own businesses or are artists, therapists, teachers, etc. I AM FUSSY, let’s just establish that fact first (but then deep down we are all fussy about something… even those of you who say you are not, be honest and you will find there is something you will not have any other way!). So I would not advertise anything that did not live up to my fussy standards and those of the fussy public.

In the meantime recession hit and I felt it was all the more urgent to get this up and running before any (or any more) businesses closed down. People asked, but how will you make anything from this venture? I wasn’t sure but I felt I should do it anyway and faced with the wonderful abilities of those around me, this was the one thing I knew I could do.

Also, there is no reason why you can’t still be fussy in a recession and I want to share ways of living with high standards on low or no wages.

I have also often thought that the food I paid good money for was not worth it, be it from a supermarket, café, restaurant or even farmers’ market, so I intend to include some critiques here (who else here loves to read AA Gill?).

In the meantime, while I procrastinated, I took a few courses, one being The Artist’s Way, where I discovered I like to write. Not fiction, like Miss Fusspot (if you’re lucky I’ll introduce you – or perhaps more acurately, your little ones, to some of her stories another day), just to write about everyday life, which is perhaps not everyday life to everyone else or perhaps it is – your comments will be invaluable in assessing this! We are four fusspots in one household: Mr, Mrs, Miss and Master,  not a widely used term today for juniors but entirely correct in this case as master is a diagnosed Fusspot (or Asperger as it’s more commonly known).

The last and perhaps most important reason to finally start this page is that this is Mr & Mrs Fusspot’s first week, (2nd day, I so desperately wanted to start yesterday but picked the wrong CMS to try first. Should’ve gone to… WordPress first!) of unemployment, so stay with us as I let you know how we get on with this new state of affairs (both of us in the same month and even Aunt Fusspot too!)

As a fully fledged fusspot I really don’t like trying to read something with typos, but I confess I am not all-knowing, so please, please feel free, fellow fusspots, to send in any corrections I need to make or point out any consistent errors especially (though please do bare in mind where spellings are concerned that I am not North American and therefore will be conforming to English spelling, though I point out that I am not English either and sure don’t ye know some of the ould native language comes through in our way of talkin’, so please forgive me and help me be an even fussier fusspot!).

Yours fussily,

Mrs Fusspot

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