About this blog
Living for Disco was born in October 2004 to proud, and occasionally exasperated single parent (of the blog, sadly not of any actual children), Rachie. That’s me. Hello.
I’d been looking for some time for a way to discipline myself into writing something every day. Notebooks and pens don’t work for me - it seems that I need both a delete button, and an audience (whether imaginary, or real) in order actually to put something down on virtual paper.
Then my lovely friend Louisa went off adventuring around the world, and set up a travel diary on blogger. I’d had no idea such things existed, so I waded through a few blogs, found some I liked, and became hooked.
Don’t ask me why I chose the name Living for Disco. It just popped into my head, and I liked it. I still do. I’m a child of the 70’s after all.
So, the blog charts my very mundane life as a fundraiser and cycle commuter with a psychotically tidy flatmate, first living in London, and then to beautiful, serene Cambridge, and finally Namibia.
You could say that blogging has changed my life - I was inspired to apply for VSO by a fellow VSO blogger, and that led me here, to a country so sparsely populated that it comes second only to Mongolia for the amount of land available per person.
And although I’m still addicted to blogging, I haven’t yet done what I originally intended, and used all this practice to write something meaningful.
Still, Mary Wesley was about 70 when she published her first novel, so there’s time for me yet…
