Sorting out, the other day, I got to a suitcase with notebooks. They were notebooks from about five or six years ago when I 'went back to college'. Upstairs, I have a plan chest full of 'stuff' also from five or six years ago. Both of them have a big imaginary label marked in bold felt-tip - UNRESOLVED. For that time they've been occupying space as furniture, surfaces and decoration, but now they are containers, and I am sorting them out.

The timing isn't down to chance. For the last few weeks I've been umming and ahhing about this blog. Writing posts, not publishing them. Too baby? Too middle-aged? Too homely? Too touristy? Too light? Too heavy? Too tidy? Too messy? Too nicey? Too nasty? Choosing photos, then having a mass cull at the last minute. It all felt un-nervingly familiar. Right back to being a student with a portfolio to get together and a 'crit' to prepare for. That time I chugged to a halt and then stopped.

Amongst the notebooks and cuttings I found some quotes which have stuck in my mind. In an article on creativity called 'What's the Big Idea?' computer game creator, Peter Molyneux said, "I really believe the only difference between a creative person and the non-creative person is that creative people tend not to have that little voice in their head saying, 'That's not going to work, that's a stupid idea."

It made me realise that my 'inner critic' was busy at work again, sitting on my shoulder dissing my New Post analogue box and tutting when I clicked the Choose button. So I took some photos and read a bit more and now here I am, looking at my New Post analogue box. What to do?

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