Right first, and this is never a good way to start a blog post, I am sorry for the lack of updates of late. As you can see from my previous post, lots of things have changed recently. What has changed you ask? Well are you sitting comfortably? No? You might want to do something about that seat then…

So, firstly my lovely other half Lorraine, has moved in with me. I am a very lucky Trev, oh yes. Soon we will have more people living with us, and will need a bigger house. We already have had to buy a new car…

So then, internet stuff. I have written nothing at all for some time now and I am really not sure what to do next if I am honest. Flux is popular with some people so I may carry on with that. NSD is popular with a lot more people, but the future of that is far from certain at the moment. I am bothered by the fact that my hosting bill has just come up, and it is quite a lot of money. Now with all of the things that I have in my webspace there is a lot of popular stuff. I am genuinely pleased that people enjoy it, and that it is getting heard bt lots of people, what does worry me is that I am effectively paying to give people this free entertainment. This is not a whinge, although some donations would not go amiss, there have been no donations at all this year. Balance that against the fact that we get on average 1000 downloads a month just of NSD’s, just a donation of 50p from each listener would have easily covered the costs.I hope that you see that I am not complaining, I am just trying to explore ways of making this new media at least pay for itself.

So, where from here? I cannot really afford the hosting at the moment, although i will probably pay for it. I have plans for some different things in the webspace, not least of which is a gallery of Lorraine’s (my other half) pictures. She is a very talented photographer.

i am considering the possibility of making some of the podcasts / writing come with a small fee, I am talking pence here people, just to go towards my costs. Is that too much to ask, that what I make for you does not cost me money?

Any thoughts or suggestions are genuinely wanted, I am not keen on this as a way forward at all but need a way of making some money from all of these people having fun. Advertisements is a possibility I suppose, but I am not keen. As a comedian/comedy writer I feel that it is only one step from there to being editorialised by people with large wallets and an axe to grind. “Could you just take out that joke about our product…” The start of a slippery slope.

Trev