Blogger Blues

 

On the 20^th March I received an email from blogger announcing that my blog of 17 years had been taken down and would no longer be accessible because it had been reported as violating one of their content policies. Hilariously, the policy it was said to have violated is that relating to ‘Violence and gore’. Violence and gore? My blog? What violence and gore? The closest I have ever come to gore is perhaps saying something positive about Al Gore at one point!

I thought maybe it was a joke. But no, the blog had gone. To make matters worse, the backup files I had saved were wiped earlier that day when I had needed to factory re-set my laptop due to it not working.

Everything, everything was gone. 17 years of documenting my life with Owner vanished in an instant. There is an appeal process, so I immediately appealed the decision. You are given no idea how long that process will take. A search on Google suggested it could be weeks. If you are reading this on www.poppetsubslut.blogspot then you can see the appeal eventually vindicated me. If not, then this is the first post of a new blog, and the old blog has gone forever.

At first, I was incredulous, then felt almost bereaved as I realised all the memories I had shared and talked about that would be gone, perhaps forever, then anger and finally annoyance and defiance.

To however reported the blog in the first place, if you are reading this, then fuck right off. To everyone else, thank you to all who reached out with messages of support and concern and thank you to billie of MyMadamsFLR fame for letting the world know that Owner and I were still alive and well. Whenever blogs I follow go dark or become inactive I always worry and wonder what happened to the author. I didn’t want people to think anything untoward had occurred to Owner or i. Thank you billie for being a true friend.

In other news. Owner decreed that although I might not have a blog to post to, I should continue drafting and writing blog posts. This is the first such post (and if it appears you know that either the old blog has been restored, or we have created a new one).

I tried not to let news of the blog being taken down affect me too much but to lose a 17-year diary of my life with Owner did hit hard. Still, we had the distraction of a visit to my mum and her husband to take our mind off things. On returning that evening back to London, Owner suggested we have a drink somewhere. We ended up drinking a lethal combination of lager beer and sake in a Japanese bar. It was great fun. Owner took a shine to one of the bar staff, he did I agree look quite cute, and i flashed my bra to all and sundry as you can see.

 It was a good night.

However, the next day saw us both pretty hungover and tired, in my case this lasted 36 hours!