Why?

... do I bother? Spending (wasting?) so much time with this blogging business? Risking alienating potential guests, offending friends and family, and probably ending up in some lawsuit?

Because I gather that regular updating of a blog on a website adds to its SEO - Search Engine Optimisation, ie it makes the website come up first when googled.  But someone else told me that the blog was supposed to contain useful information and be featured on the front page, so it can't be that.  Even though, if you google "Luxury Dartmoor B&B" - up we come! 

Because post-divorce, one of my many money-making ideas was to write a book, to be called 'Surviving Solo'. And another was to have a go at becoming a columnist.  With the blog it's possible that I might eventually be able to amalgamate both, along the lines of, say, "A Year in Provence", only less well written and less about France.  The trouble is, books need shape: a beginning, a middle, and an end.  Hence my remorseless search for the perfect man.  Once I've found him, I can give up the blog, as the fairy tale will finally end:  "So then they got married and lived happily ever after." Presumably, judging by past experience, after that you will subsequently have to suffer Volume 2.

And finally, because, (mostly, I expect) I like talking about myself a lot, and seeing my name in print.  Always have. Pathetic.