I had a faint recollection that I started my blog ten years ago, but didn’t have the appetite to scroll all the way back.  But then I realised that my first post was called, not very imaginatively, ‘My first blog post’.  Lo and behold, it is dated 19 February 2014.  So, it was exactly ten years ago, when the Royal Academy was in the process of launching a new website.

The original idea was that it would be a way of communicating with the Academy’s staff, but it quickly became evident that I would put my foot in it whenever I wrote about the RA, so I started writing about everything else I was doing away from the RA, helped by the fact that I went to China not long afterwards.

I have a suspicion that there may be some readers who signed up ten years ago, in which case, I salute you !