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Right, you.

I’m off in a bit for a while. It’s “hard to skyward”, but while I’m gone this site will keep updating every day, just like normal.

I contacted some writers from my bestest blogs to guest post while I am gone.

Hey all,

I hope you’re all doing well and apologies in advance for the blanket email. I pick on you because you read my blog and leave comments every now and then and you’re good writers. I know it, you kind of know it and your other people know it.

I’m going on holiday and I have prepared nothing in the way of posts. The timing’s not great, because the Shaggy Blog Stories (writer 26, y’all) has just come out, the pimpage of which might pick me up some readers like your (I think) good (I think) selves.

So it’s with blanket email and cap in hand that I ask for volunteers to send a post for me to use online while I am away to enable me to do nothing in New York for a while.

I’ll going to programme them in while I’m gone so a new one will go live every day. In return for your efforts as a guest blogger, you get a link back to your site from the post, your name in pixels, my readers for a day and the knowledge that This Is This is (and will remain, let’s be clear about that) in your debt.

We’re talking really small posts, not choking hazard small, but a few paragraphs written in your own inimitable style.

I stormed my brain and here’s what washed up. Feel free to come up with your own ideas, or comb the beach of my thoughts for worthless trinkets such as follows:

Your perfect morning
Arguments you should have had
The hours of your life you’ll never get back
When did you last learn something about yourself
Things that smell better than they taste
Your greatest moment involving music
The smells of my childhood
Words that people say wrong
Good actors in bad films
Things you’ll never eat or drink again
“The only time I ever (action) was in (place)”
Opening line: “I remember how quickly the weather changed that day.”
Why you might be someone’s best friend, but they don’t know it yet
The most cash you’ve ever seen

Or something else, or just a good post you’ve written in the past from your own site with suitable links to more good posts of yours.

If you’re keen to take part, send an email back by Wednesday 28 March with your post, title in the subject field and you blog url at the top and we’ll see what we get. If you want, write a two line description of yourself or your blog.

I’ll know you’re all busy so don’t worry if you don’t have time.

Cheers all, and I will return in early April with a caffeine addiction and an arrogant swagger, saying things like “I’m walking here” and calling people I barely know Toots.
 
Best wishes,
 
Cliff

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