Sunday 22 January 2012

The outside lane of the information superhighway.......

Hello all. I'm blogging. I am a blogger. I blog. This is very exciting let me tell you. Having trundled along rather annoyingly in the middle lane of the social media highway, holding everyone up and refusing to look in my mirrors, I have now accelerated into the unknown. My head is out of the window, my nose is wet, and my ears are flapping. Let me tell you, it feels good.

The reasons for setting up this blog are twofold. The first is that we've just moved to the ludicrously beautiful little town of Dartmouth in Devon, in order to set up a wildlife tours / film-making training / diving / sitting round with my friends drinking coffee business. It's due to open on 1st April - how appropriate. The second reason for starting this blog is that someone very clever who knows about these things told me I had to. Facebook being so last year daahhhling (she didn't sound like that at all, but this is my blog so I'm allowed to lie my head off).

So, this blog will chart the errant progress of us setting up the business. It'll provide a tissue thin justification for a man to charge round in a boat trying to film and photograph basking sharks, sunfish, dolphins et al. It'll probably track my inevitable passage into financial ruin on the back of a series of hilariously flawed business decisions. And it'll tell the story of me, Tam, little Isla, and Reuben the dog making our new home here in south Devon. It'll be a dog blog. As well as a sprog blog.

Right, if you've got this far well done. I'm going to try to attach a picture now. There really is no limit to my flair in the IT department it seems.

So, a new home, a new baby, a new business, and a new life. What could possibly go wrong?

Cheers, Mont and family.

20 comments:

  1. Great news Monty - best of luck with all your new ventures!

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  2. wishing you every success with your busines a beautifull part of the country, look forward to popping back and visiting your blog, big cuddle for Rueben too i have a Jack Russell named Ruby and i wouldn't be without her. x

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  3. Dartmouth is lovely, and as a Devonian, I look forward to hearing all about your adventures! :D

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  4. yes!! you're a blogger now!! love it <3 hope you have a good year x

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  5. Good luck with all - lots of photos of the gorgeous Reuben please!

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  6. Good luck with your Business Monty , Looking forward to reading more of your blog posts.

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  7. Hi Monty, welcome to Blogsville! Looking forward to hearing all your news. Wishing you much happiness, success and happy memories in your new home, business and adventures with your young family.
    Best wishes
    the Jarmans :)

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  8. Great stuff Monty, looking forward to hearing your 'stories' in the coming months. I, like many others no doubt, am incredibly jealous of your fab life, I've watched most things you've done and I love them all. Through you I get to see things I wouldn't normally see and go to some beautiful places so let this journey begin... can't wait :))

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  9. Good luck monty. if you give this business as much commitment as you have to your marine-biology stuff and your TV stuff then it will do fine. I took my molecular-biology skills to the business world and it did fine. if i can do it, you can! and if there is every anything a DNA-fingerprinting -type person [who also owns a idiotic black dog and many handy-man skills] then just yell!

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  10. Congratulations and Good luck, can't wait to here your fab stories and see all the photo's Keep up the good work

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  11. Now I have another reason to visit one of my favourite holiday destinations! Best of luck with everything and hopefully we'll bump in to you later this year when we're in Dartmouth! xx

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  12. It all sounds wonderful - best of luck and look forward to following you journey!

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  13. Business idea
    Gutted you didn't mention filming seals off Dartmouth Monty! :o)
    There are seals seen in the area and I am keen to get your photos of them, to set up a photo ID project.
    You see, we have seals moving from Looe in SE Cornwall round to the north Cornish coast, and seals moving seasonally between there and north Devon....but we have no-one taking seal ID photos in south Devon....sounds like something you could inspire....challenge on!
    Click here
    http://www.suesseals.eclipse.co.uk/Looe%20IDs.htm
    to read about our Looe seal photo ID project...reports at bottom of page are cumulative, so you only need to look at the last one to see just how much we've achieved.
    Best of luck with the business!

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  14. Welcome to Blogosphere, Monty! The one of few places that could persuade me to desert my current home in Yorkshire, is Devon and particularly Dartmouth, which happens to be the seat of one significant part of my family (speaking in ancestral terms that is). Great choice of place to live! We have enjoyed your very down to earth presence on TV over the past couple of years, including your visit to the GBR. The very best of luck to you and your family.

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  15. Congratulations and good luck on all your new ventures Monty! If you need any help with PR for your new business - press coverage/social media/events/ad placement, you know where I am. (Sorry, couldn't resist a plug for my own new business venture!)

    Best, Emma (ex WDCS)

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  16. I look forward to following your adventures :)

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  17. Nice one Monty! Best of luck with your new venture and looking forward to seeing the business up and running. Great part of the country to live.

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  18. Monty,

    If the new venture comes over as well as your recent ones it will be a huge success. I'm still a regular visitor to friends in Dartmouth so perhaps we'll get that pint?

    Colin.

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  19. Sounds amazing, best of luck! Don't suppose you're open to an Interview for my blog??

    www.exceedpossibility.co.uk

    Tom

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