My Blogging Style

When i was growing up one of my favourite reads was the Newspaper Sketch writers and my favourite was the 'By The Way' and later renamed 'Beachcomber' column because it was silly and funny and when it was created during the First World War, the writer, Major John Bernard Arbuthnot, said he wanted a column which took a news item, rolled it around bit and then clapped a Harpo Marx wig over it which was very well received at a time of such National struggle.
When i started blogging around 1999 as part of a group of friends doing on an online magazine type blog, i decided that would be my style which didn't really chime with the style of the blog we was writing so around 2004 i began my own blog where i could slap as many Harpo Marx wigs on news items as i wanted.
The problem was unless people know you are writing a sketch, they just assume you are making things up or flat out lying because sketch writing is very much a British thing and not really done outside of our shores, the act of taking a situation and pointing at the absurdity and silliness in it rather than the 'serious' part of the news was not clear although then it was the Gulf War and many people didn't like my slapping a Harpo wig on the players like Tony Blair or G W Bush at such a time and spent more time defending that the posts were not meant to be 'factually accurate' as it was a sketch but i soon realised that the style could be off-putting and the humour something of an acquired taste so i began the Falling On A Bruise blog around 2007 and tried to intertwine the two.  
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't but all those years of reading the Beachcomber columns certainly did have an influence on me because when i am looking for angles for pieces, i always dive head first into the silly and absurdness of it all and then usually have to reign myself back in, lesson learnt from earlier experiences where some stories were deemed not inductive to the silly and absurd.
Sometimes i just can't help myself and the urge to lampoon is too strong, i mean just look around some of the people who are leading us, but other times i try to combine to the two into one post which could come across as making fun of a serious topic but i maintain that some situations are always going to end badly so we might as well have a bloody good laugh about it. It's the British way.