I’m back but with a new name

It’s been a long time. February Photofest was and always is quite the effort. I intended to take a short break afterwards, though not 3 months. Of course prior to February my posts were pretty random and definitely not regular. But that was because I was trying to decide what to do with the blog. So much has changed. Not just in terms of us, our relationship and the way we live it now married and in our 60’s. But in terms of the potential acceptability of much of what I’ve posted over the past few years. The online safety bill has made me and many of my blogging friends question their future. Certainly some have either moved off line or else made their sites inaccessible to those in the UK. So I was busy working out what to do when my blog was essentially stolen from me. The place where the name Masters Pleasing Bitch was hosted suddenly decided to put the name up for sale. this was despite the fact I had paid to own it for another year. I spent far too much time trying to rescue my name to no avail. So here I am back, with a new name and thanks to the fabulous Michael with my content in tact.

Who am I now?

I’m still Julie, as I always was. But to be honest, I’m rarely MBP anymore. For reasons I’ll explain as I go along, our life has moved on. In a good but different way. Maybe we outgrew the lifestyle in the way we tried to live it. But also we are married and our priorities have changed. We are also older and trying to managed our bodies which don’t quite respond as they did. Our life together in the main is extremely good and happy. But there are challenges which won’t go away and which I’d very much like to explore here. So in this new incarnation I’ve rebranded myself After MPB. But still Julie. Moving forward, I’ll probably refer to my husband as Master but more likely Graeme.

There’s much to do here and hopefully a lot to say

Firstly, the change of name and time lag means I pretty much have to re-learn how to set up a blog in the way I want it. Plus, I need to have a new logo and theme for the me I am now. Hopefully in the coming days and week’s I can navigate my way through as I re-learn the things I’ve kind of forgotten.

One of the reasons I wasn’t posting, was because the blog felt too much like the person I was in my 50’s. Finding her way out of a long, bad marriage and into a new relationship. Plus navigating through the whole M/s dynamic. I don’t regret any of what happened or how we got there. But we really are in a new and different place worthy of reinvention. We haven’t completely moved on or away, but there are new avenues to explore. Or ones that we thought we’d lost back in 2020 and subsequently. This change presents new opportunities and horizons.

Along with new material, I may take old stuff down, or change it. I will probably remove images that I don’t think fit with the current world we inhabit. There will be new ones though but hopefully they will feel like a better fit. I’ll take my time as I work through. Rest assured though. Julie is back. After MPB!