This is yet another blog on Second Life. It’s my blog, so I get to write about anything I desire. If you want to come along for the ride, then so be it. Here’s an introduction to the initial intentions of this blog, and what happened in between (ie. my Aunty Audrie, that’s what…)
1. The Chicken Diaries – Initial Intentions
I originally started this blog up intending to make it a personal blog, then had intentions to advertise for writers who might like to write on the following subjects (just to keep entries going)-
- Fashion & Shopping in Second Life
- Avatars (skins, shapes, body parts, hair etc) in Second Life
- Places in Second Life
- Dating, Sex & Relationships in Second Life
- Groups, Roleplays or Sub-Groups in Second Life
- Houses & Gardens in Second Life
- Animals, Wildlife & Pets in Second Life
- Business in Second Life
- Events (Parties, Conferences, Education, Music, Dancing) in Second Life
- General & Miscellaneous – I figure I might need a catchall for all those oddities in SL which make you laugh (or cry)
- Life (Living, Family, Friends, How-to’s) in Second Life
- Opinions & Editorials
This was to be a blog with three, and only three rules -
- No drama. No melodramatics. Save them for other blogs. This one is simply one personal opinion on something.
- Writers can write whatever takes their fancy – they will not be forced into regimented roles in writing (say, only being a fashion reporter). They can add entries whenever they please and there are no regimented publishing criteria.
- Stylecards will point to SLURLs to go get the object / fashion / skin or whatever, or even the places the shots are taken in. I hate the blogs which don’t list slurls, I really do.
2. Then Life Happens
Well, all of that was a good idea, right?
But then life happens, or in my case – my Aunt happened. Let me explain the holdup then -
My Aunty Audrie was married to her husband, Uncle Jack, for forty years, when a couple of years ago he died of a heart attack. Before then they had lived a reasonably luxurious lifestyle in the U.K. As my mother passed away some years ago, Aunty Audrie was the only real family I had left, and we have a reasonably close relationship now that I’ve moved to the U.K. myself.
Aunty Audrie is an old biddy, if ever you knew one – just like my mother, for that matter. I’m quite proud of both of them. She continued on with the family business for a couple of years, and was doing well.
Until last month, unfortunately, when a fire burnt down the family store and warehousing. Which is when my Aunt discovered a trusted employee had ‘forgotten’ to re-do the business insurance for this year. After selling up the family home in a time of economic recession, Audrie was left with enough money to pay off the business debts, but not enough to really find another home for herself.
So, she’s coming to live with me here on Second Life, temporarily at least. And I’ve suddenly become aware that I only have the one bedroom (with the normal sex-gen bed) and I have to shift around quite a few prims to make a temporary home for her, and to make her feel welcome.
3. The Chicken Diaries – Re-Jigged Intentions
With all this mad rush, this blog isn’t getting off to a proper start, I admit it. But I’m hoping that eventually once things settle down a bit, that I’ll have time to blog here with some of the categories I’ve earmarked above. And perhaps I’ll get around to finding some other writers for this blog, maybe not.
4. Why the Chicken Diaries?
Yeah, I know – it’s an odd name, especially when there are plenty of witty second life blog titles out there. But I happen to be doing a chicken experiment at my Second Life home right now, and I have lots of animals. I wanted a chicken diary, and a blog is a diary, right?
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