Four Blogs a Day – Why I Write Them (and Why You Might Too

 Four Blogs a Day – Why I Write Them (and Why You Might Too)

There was a time when writing one blog post a week felt like a solid achievement. Thoughtful. Productive. Job done.

Now?
Four blogs a day.

Yes, really.

Not because I enjoy making life difficult for myself (although some might argue otherwise), but because each blog serves a very different purpose—and together, they form something much bigger than the sum of their parts.

Let me take you behind the scenes.

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🌱 The “Going Green” Blog – Thinking About the Future

This is where I step back and look at the bigger picture.

Energy, sustainability, climate change, new technology—it all lives here. One day it might be wind power scaling faster than anyone expected, the next it’s whether burning wood is actually as “green” as we’ve been told.

It’s less about giving answers and more about asking better questions:

• What actually works?
• What sounds good but isn’t?
• What can we realistically do at home?

Given my own setup—solar panels, battery storage, electric boating—it’s also a chance to reflect on what real-world sustainability looks like beyond headlines.

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🎓 The Hemel Private Tuition Blog – Helping Students Succeed

This one is very different. Much more focused. Much more practical.

Every post is rooted in one simple idea:
every student is different.

After 40 years in teaching, and now working 1:1, the patterns are fascinating:

• The student who “knows everything” but can’t answer a question
• The mathematician who struggles the moment words are involved
• The confident learner undone by exam technique

These blogs are about solving those problems.

They’re not theoretical—they come straight from real lessons, real struggles, and real breakthroughs. If a blog helps just one student finally understand a concept or approach an exam question correctly, it’s done its job.

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⛵ PMR Sailing – Learning at 65+ (and Laughing About It)

This is probably the most personal—and definitely the most entertaining.

Learning to sail a dinghy on the River Thames in your 60s is… humbling.

There’s something about:

• Getting the tiller the wrong way round
• Perfectly executing a manoeuvre… in completely the wrong direction
• Being overtaken by everyone (including, possibly, the safety boat)

…that keeps you grounded.

But beneath the humour, there’s a serious thread:

• Learning new skills later in life
• Managing fear (capsizing, anyone?)
• Understanding technique step by step

It’s also a record of progress—from barely steering straight to (occasionally) looking like I know what I’m doing.

Occasionally.

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🛠️ This Blog – The Workshop, Tech, and Ideas Hub

And then there’s this one—the “everything else” blog.

This is where ideas land:

• Home workshop projects
• Video production and editing
• Cameras, gadgets, and experiments
• Random problems that need solving (and occasionally fixing the network switch…)

It’s the most flexible space. Some posts are practical, some experimental, some just curiosity-driven.

If something makes me think “that’s interesting…”, it probably ends up here.

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🔄 Why Four Blogs Work (Surprisingly Well)

At first glance, it sounds like overkill.

But here’s the interesting part: writing four blogs doesn’t feel like four times the work.

Why?

Because:

• Each blog has a clear identity
• Ideas don’t compete—they have a home
• Content overlaps in useful ways (teaching → sailing → tech → sustainability)

And perhaps most importantly:
writing daily forces clarity.

There’s no time to overthink. You write, refine, publish—and move on.

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✍️ The Real Reason I Do It

It’s not just content creation. It’s not even marketing (although that helps).

It’s about:

• Capturing ideas before they disappear
• Sharing experience in a useful way
• Building something consistent over time

Four blogs a day might sound excessive.

But actually, it’s just four conversations:

• With the future
• With students
• With fellow learners
• And with anyone curious enough to follow along

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🚀 Final Thought

If you’ve ever thought about starting a blog, here’s the truth:

Start small.
Stay consistent.
Write about what you actually do.

And if you ever find yourself writing four a day…

…don’t worry.

You’ve probably just found your rhythm.