I recently had a bit of a situation as some of you will be aware, and yes it was of my own making. I will also admit that I took a bit of a confidence hit with it too. I let stress overwhelm me and made some very big mistakes because of it. But it isn’t all doom and gloom.

I did mention that I was worried about a fence panel that got blown down in the wind (causing dog to escape briefly) and I was a bit anxious about how the new neighbour’s would take to sharing the responsibility for repairing it. However, we agreed to go 50:50 – I ordered it, it will be here on Tuesday and the neighbour (who looks like he is pretty tool handy) said he is happy to put it up! I brought a spare post down from the allotment today too, so in a few days, hopefully, all should be well in the garden again.

That wasn’t the kindness that overwhelmed me though. That came in 2 parts. One of them came from a comment I left on a YouTube community page. It was on a channel which helps small content creators like myself, with information to help you grow your channel. From that comment alone, I was gobsmacked to start getting comments from people saying they have subscribed to my channel, they really like what I’m doing and on and on it went. I’ve also found some lovely people to follow too and I think I’m going to bring one of them to you later in the week (with their permission). I’ve gained about 20 subscribers in a day and I just can’t believe it!

Along with the subs, came so much encouragement from other small channels and it’s really starting to feel like a warm and supportive place – I know there are also trolls and other nasties but so far so good.

The other thing which I found overwhelming when it came to the level of kindness – was you.

When I went around screaming the sky had fallen in i.e. my blog had been hacked and then finding out it wasn’t – you guys had my back. I’m not used to that outside of the home and it took me aback. You were trying to find out ways to help me and advise me, you were checking my blog to see if anything had changed, I had messages on my YouTube post and people very kindly making me feel better about being so stupid silly. I can’t thank you enough.

People talk about having a ‘community’ online and I was always a bit jealous of it I suppose but I’ll tell you, when I threw poop at the fan, the number of you who rallied round really made me realise that, even if it’s small, there is a very special group of people I’ve met by doing this blog – and they care. That, to me, was overwhelming.

So, to everyone who stepped up –

THANK YOU

I feel truly blessed to have you in my life.