The first blog I created was in 2000 and on a site called Cosgrove Capers. The name was taken from the block of flats in Hackney that we lived in at the time - Cosgrove House.

The aim was to keep a digital scrap book and share news with family and friends about the first year of our oldest sons life. I think it’s fair to say any interest in what I posted back then was mostly mine. Nothing much has changed.

There was weekly updates, snap shots and a few audio files. Without knowing it “Oscar’s Page” was very much a weblog and the site I suppose what might now be called a digital garden. It was created and hosted on a service called Homestead.

Over time I added stuff about getting married. I created a project called Drawstrings. We asked everyone we invited to our wedding to complete some ‘amusing’ profile questions. These were compiled into an album that was shared with everyone at a pre wedding party. The idea was to have our respective extended families be part of a shared project to help get to know one another a bit. I was thinking that a wedding and reception where people were not total strangers would be a good thing. It worked out pretty well.

I found some of the old html files a while back and retrieved some of what I wrote and saved them here for posterity. I also still have the Drawstrings album and harboured the intention to scan and add the pages to whatever iteration of a site/blog I have had online for way too many years. One day I will get round to doing that.