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5 years on... The Big Blogger grand final!

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I mentioned earlier today that is was milestones time...

Well, here you go! Just over 5 years ago (on the 6th of April, 2012) the article above appeared in the North West Evening Mail, as me and Darren McSweeney battled to become the paper's new columnist.

Competing in the Big Blogger competition, we'd seen off the competition by garnering the two highest number of visits to our posts on their website, the field being whittled down each week.

And exactly 5 years ago this very day... Darren won.

As the photoshopped picture of us in a stare-off indicates, we have actually never met, and there was no animosity between us. Darren wrote great articles tackling local issues, whilst I... well, you've probably figured that out by now. One of the paper's snappers came and took some pics of me at work to create the article, one of which is still used in the header image for my column in the print edition of the paper each week.

I was contacted shortly after my crushing defeat by the paper's Deputy Editor, who kindly said they liked my stuff enough that they wanted me to write a column too. Darren got Monday, and I book-ended the week with my Friday slot.

Darren got a laptop, whilst I managed to negotiate a free copy of the Friday edition each week.

So, we're tantalisingly close to it being 5 years since I became a newspaper columnist. Time flies when you have head full of nonsense, eh?

 (CD A-Z: Mike Oldfield's "Exposed".)      

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  1. dumbwitness9 April 2017 at 17:17

    And you're still going! Top effort and a great weekly read.

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  2. dumbwitness9 April 2017 at 17:17

    And you're still going! Top effort and a great weekly read.

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