I wrote the first seven posts in late March and scheduled them as I would be away for a few days over the Easter period, then the rest of the posts were written the evening before the day they were due. Most of them were fairly easy to write, though I had to improvise on four of them as I haven't yet camped at or visited any places beginning with the corresponding letters - and there are certainly no places in this country beginning with X.
I must admit that having a very busy work and home life meant that I didn't have the time each day to visit as many other blogs as I intended to do, but even though the challenge has officially finished I'll still visit more as and when time allows. Two things I did notice when visiting other blogs - many of them had titles which bore no relation to their content and some, which I initially found quite interesting, had given up after the first half-a-dozen or so letters which was a shame as I would have liked to read more.
Two problems which I experienced while doing the challenge - for some reason Google Chrome wouldn't let me 'follow' any Wordpress blogs so I had to bookmark those I was interested in; I had no problem at all with Blogger blogs. Also, as I'd altered the settings on my own blog to allow others to comment, I received a ridiculous amount of spam comments though strangely none of them were on any of the actual challenge posts. I did consider altering the settings again but that may have stopped genuine readers from commenting, so for the sake of a month I put up with the spam - needless to say, I have now reverted to my previous settings.
All in all, doing the challenge has been very enjoyable and I've found some interesting new blogs to follow and comment on; I've also gained some new followers on my own blog. A big 'thank you' must go to Arlee and all the other organisers and minions for their hard work in making the challenge a success, and to those bloggers who commented on my blog - and now the challenge has finished I can finally get round to writing about, and posting photos of, my two most recent camping trips.
