June 1st, and officially the first birthday of my blog.

Mind you, if you go back far enough you’ll see that the first post (titled Four) was actually posted on 19th July 2007.

The whole month of June 2007 was spent going up and down on pretty much a four or five day cycle. My ups were very hypomanic, my downs pretty bad too.

The reason for setting up the blog was (during a very hypo up) to write about my exploits of raising £4,000,000 for charity in 18 months so I could give it all away on my 40th birthday at some massive event at the Palladium with a whole host of celebrities handing out the cheques. (You can laugh, and I do now, but I was deadly serious at the time.)

Of course it was flawed, although I did have some brilliant ideas and I still have the notebook with all of them written in. I wrote a variety of posts about how I was doing and did get some way down the road setting up various projects – including writing to Channel 4 suggesting they make a documentary about me!

After a spell in the ACU at the beginning of July due to a ‘mixed episode’ (up and down at the same time – not nice) and being totally worn out physically and very ‘ill’ mentally, I spent a few weeks recuperating then changed all of Junes’ posts to ‘Private’ so the rest of the world couldn’t read them.

I decided I would continue with the blog, but just use it as a record of my life, and I am pleased I have. It’s been an education for me. Hope you’re enjoying it too.

So there you have it. Happy 1st Birthday Blog. May there be many more to come!