Before I blogged a single word, I spent hours glued to my PC screen reading literally hundreds of fascinating blogs. It was clear that nothing I might have to say would be of any interest to anyone. Rather than cutting my losses there and then, I struck upon the idea that I should write articles including about my experiences within the practise of Law, more importantly presenting a critical analysis of what is actually wrong with the System (and point out that so much is right) and how it could be improved. My critique would have necessarily strayed into the world of politics, where I had proposed to make sharp criticism of Government, both Conservative and Labour. I did not have any illusions that my posts would be widely read, or read at all.
 
The drawback to my grandiose scheme was that such articles had to be highly researched, providing facts and figures (and referring to the source of such information) in order to be authoritative. Each article would have required weeks of preparation and posts would have been infrequent. That would be no way to run a blog, as the most prolific and successful bloggers produce entertaining material upon an almost daily basis. Thus, my Gerald Elvidge blog turned out to be a damp squib. It was very lucky that few, if any people read it. Most readers had visited the site probably only in the mistaken belief that it was one run by that Gerald Elvidge who lives in Cow Bay, Nova Scotia. Anyway, I felt that I had an obligation to preserve for posterity the one and only post on that blog, so here it is.
"The subtitle 'Reflections upon Life, the Law, Politics and Democracy' seems to promise something very grand, yet is very far from what I had intended to convey. Perhaps I sought merely to suggest that my postings would try not to be banal or trite but even of that there cannot be any guarantee.
 
This Blog does not propose to be a personal but also very public diary of my daily trials and tribulations. Neither does it propose to dwell upon a single issue. Rather, I intend a personal log of my feelings about matters which are truly within my area of experience, knowledge or expertise (as limited as they might be.)
 
I do not have any axe to grind but am indifferent to little. I relish the cut and thrust of argument and am no stranger to playing the role of Devil's Advocate. That my Web Log will be no more than a feeble parody of those I have enjoyed reading during the course of the past few months, I have no doubt. I do not suffer any delusions that anyone will ever visit this site but should they do so, I welcome and invite their comment.
 
So, let battle be joined."