* I started blogging waaaay back in 2005 (that was several blogs ago). I was blogging long before I read other blogs. I guess I like the sound of my own voice.
* I started this blog on Blogger in early 2008 to put my thoughts about giving up law and teaching yoga full time into words. It used to be called “The Highs and Lows of a Suburban Yogini” but that was a bit of a mouthful.
* I carried on blogging because I started getting comments! EcoYogini and Green Spell were my first regular readers and for that I am eternally grateful. Have you seen that scene in “Julie and Julia” where she gets her first comment? Yeah, that was me!
* In June 2008 Nadine emailed me and interviewed me on her blog. Through her I “met” Christine and Mary, through them I “met” Phil and Svasti, through Phil (I think?) I “met” Catherine and Stella and on and on like dominoes all in a line. And every day I get new readers, new comments, new blogs to read (I also have less and less time to read them all but I try, I really do 
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* Sometimes I actually get to meet bloggers in real life.
* There is a code of karma in the yoga blogging world. We agree to disagree. We don’t get into flame wars.
* There is a blogging synchronicity. I’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve written about a subject only to find somebody else writing about it moments afterwards. Or moments before. There is something special in these here internetz.
* Being a British yoga blogger does mean I’m never going to get the gajillion hits that some US blogs do, but at I kind of like that. It makes me feel special (go with me here!) and decreases the likelihood of trolls, spammers and the sorts of comments that would make me cry.
* Some of my favourite bloggers have appeared in my dreams. Seriously. Is that weird? This may be a reason why I shouldn’t blog as often to be honest.
* But most of all I blog because if I didn’t I think my head might explode.
(I have used the word blog way too many times in this post. It’s not even a word. It should, really, have an apostrophe before it anyway.)
Why do you blog?
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In honour of all this here blogging, I thought I’d pose the questions that Ivy Black (and I cannot for the life of me remember where or how I found her blog) posted answers to yesterday. I’d love to hear your answers dear readers. If you partake, post me a link in the comments.
1) What is your favourite time of day?
Sunset. I’m not a morning person at all (although on the rare occasions I am out and about in the very early morning I can appreciate why people love it so, I just love my bed more), and I’m not really a nightowl either (the joys of CFS!!), but I do like that in between moment as the sun slips down below the horizon and another day begins to end.
2) Where and when did you meet the love of your life?
Well that depends. You can either read my story, or his story!
3) What three words would your friends outside the blogging world use to describe you?
Emotional, Imaginative, Loud
4) What country would you like to visit and why?
Finland. I want to see the Northern Lights. I want to have a sauna and roll in the snow. But most of all I want to visit the Moomin museum!
5) What is your favourite dish to cook?
Pudding. Any sort of pudding really. But especially cake. Cake is my speciality.
6) Salt or sweet?
Sweet. Especially in its proper form of cake.
7) What are your must have make-up or beauty items?
Hair straighteners (without them I look like some sort of bog creature), mascara, Rouge Noir nail polish, lip gloss, Lush’s Karma cream and Karma solid perfume and almond oil for hair and cuticles. Yeah, I’m pretty high maintenance.
8 ) What are your favourite flowers?
I love roses. I love the fact that our garden is full of rose trees. I love flowers in general really but only when they are growing in the ground. Cut flowers make me sad. Don’t buy them for me please.
9) What do you think are your worst vices, honestly?
Now that would be telling. I have no vices, clearly. I am a yoga teacher after all! 
I do swear like a trooper but only in the privacy of my own home!
10) At what time of your life were you happiest and why?
Now, obviously. It’s all we’ve got after all.
Moomins!!! The Moomin museum is fantastic and seriously worth a visit. I have a Snork Maiden thingie-thing-what-are-they-called on my mobile phone (purchased at a random post office in Helsinki, there is moomin stuff everywhere).
I find it bewildering that only European and Japanese folk seem to be familiar with the Moomins.
Lovely to read your answers, Rachel. Moomins, yes…Northen Lights, defo..we all seem to be Lush lovers and I’m with you on cut flowers. I only buy them if they are reduced to pence because I think I’m somehow saving them! I ‘d much rather a plant than a bunch of cut flowers. xx
Fun! And took advantage of the Q entertianment as well here; http://autumnlotusyoga.omblogger.com/2010/09/03/friday-fluff/
Echo the MOOMINS! response & also… Lush… love Lush… must find Lush store in Florida.
That Julie and Julia moment was similar for me, too
I love blogging, it’s become so much more than it started out being – I had no idea what the blog world could bring!
what a fun exercise! thanks for sharing. it’s got me thinking about my own reasons for blogging.
and i didn’t know there was a moomin museum! i fell in love with moomins when i was living in japan. it’s weird that they’ve been overlooked in north america.
I think that it’s interesting that bloggers appear in your dreams. Happy blogging!
Was I really one of your first visitors?! Cool! I still remember one of the first posts I read of yours – you had just come home from Paris, as had I, and you said you hadn’t liked it as much. That it was romantic, but a dark romantic – “gothic” might have been the word you used. I remember thinking: “Yeah, she’s right,” and “But she’s crazy – Paris was so awesome!” LOL.
I blog for two main reasons. Firstly, I love to read about places I haven’t visited and things I haven’t seen – it’s like a free holiday every time. And secondly, I love the chance to make new friends through my blog (I’ve met a few in person, now, as well) and the sense of community in blogland.
I followed you here via Rachel Cotterill’s blog and I’m glad that I did. I’m also a yogi (I’ve tried many different forms of yoga but Bikram seems to be my passion lately) and I like your thoughts on life.
I’m embarrassed to admit this though, but I have never heard of Moomin’s or the museum in Finland. And yes, I’m an American (hides her face in shame). Will do some research on the internet lately
I am your newest follower!
Hi Rachel:
Just stumbled upon your blog through a twitter lead. Glad I found it. Thanks for being an early blog pioneer! I am really interested in reading more about your journey from law to yoga – as I left the corporate world as well and would really love to do work tied to my passion for yoga. Not sure I could be a yoga instructor as I’m not the most flexible yogini. Please let me know which of your older blog posts would be good to read for inspiration!
Keep on blogging!
Maria
Just started a blog and am waiting for that Julie and Julia moment! But I wanted to say as a sorta longtime reader but never commenter, that I love your blog.
Thanks for sharing!