Let's celebrate

Has it really been more fifteen months of publishing Creature365? No not really. OK, I can admit I started it fifteen months back, but as all too many scattered fragments of blogs attest, beginnings are all too simple and attractive and EASY.

Journeys of a thousand miles might start with a single footfall, but once that step's done you still need to start another then another, the attraction of the beginning wears off, and the hard work of reaching an ending ramps up and oh look shiny new beginning let's start something new!. Not terrifically productive, and all these pieces of beginnings don't just sit about online taking up space, but they're in my head fluttering about taking up room. The more I do this, the more I discover something wonderful and realise it's reminded me of another thing I started long ago and...

Zeno's dichotomy paradox be damned, I'll stop that level of self referential pondering and get on with it. Beginnings might be all too simple, endings hard yet fulfilling, but thinking in that false dichotomy misses the point that the fun is in the doing. All that cleverness means is that I wasn't enjoying the more factual writing I was attempting; being a touch more irreverent (or focusing just on the cool factor) is going to keep us both happier, dear reader. I'll give you interesting beasts and if you really need to know the minutiae of wear patterns on the lower pair of tusks of a platybelodon, you've got google.

And look! a new beginning - now you know platybelodon had four tusks!