Had To Start Anew With This Blog

I had to start fresh with this blog today. 

Blogger changed the way everything is done, making things far more difficult in the name of "improvements" which I fail to see. 

The changes left me without access to my blog, called Matt Of All Trades, so I abandoned it at the beginning of August. But I've been missing it ever since. I'd built up a readership there, that has now been destroyed because of Blogger, but after struggling, I concluded they've left me no choice but to start over. 

So yeah, I'm whining. Deal with it. 

You can see all my old posts at  http://mattalltrades.blogspot.com/  so feel free to take a look at the oldies but goodies.  

This new version of the blog has the URL https://mattalltradesvt.blogspot.com.  Not the vt at the end of mattalltrades in the URL.  That's the big difference. 

So we'll give this a whirl.  We'll see where this takes us! 

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