scrapheapstuart3

Welcome to WordPress! This is your first post. Edit or delete it to take the first step in your blogging journey. Hello, my name is Stuart. I am a retired teacher now in my mid 70s, god help me. I live on the north east coast of England. I have been blogging on wordpress.com for over 15 years under the site address: scrapheapstuart2 I got the idea for the name because the wife of one of my friends, cruelly described retired people as being on the scrapheap.

I enjoyed my writing about travel and current affairs. I also did quite a lot of memoir writing. I built up a small following and got some kind, positive comments. However a few weeks ago, wordpress suddenly locked me out. It said my password was incorrect. I went through the forgotten password routine but every new password I chose was deemed incorrect by the algorithm. In the middle of trying to sort out this problem, wordpress bizarrely changed my user name from scrapheaptuart2 to joyfuldonutf881a2b165-kitwe.wordpress.com It was obviously generate by artificial intelligence. I tried and tried to change it back and get into my blogging site but failed. Apparently you only get help from an actual human being if you have a paid plan with wordpress.com I was on the free plan, paid for by adverts that they put into my posts.

So I gave in and went with the joyfuldonut name. So it looks like I have just started as I have only written one blog so far under that name. It’s one of the frustrations of the internet and modern technology. Maybe I should write a blog about it while in the “grumpy old man” mood. In the meantime my first blog under the new name is about a city break in Oxford. If you go on to read it, I hope you enjoy it.

This link will go to my ScrapheapStuart2 webpage.