I don't consider an audience when I write here and there are a couple of reasons why; firstly most of the "content" here is pretty inane and is unlikely to need any sort of censorship no matter who was reading. Secondly, I don't actually know anyone who reads this stuff*.

I've not kept this site a secret, each post has my real name after it and I've made it clear where I live and where I came from, but I have never brought this site to the attention of any of my family, friends or work colleagues. I don't think anyone I know in the real world has stumbled across this site by accident because either they would mention it, or I would spot something in the site stats to tell me.

The reason I'm mentioning this is that the current Mrs Turner has (with permission, of course) passed on the address of this site to family/friends on a couple of occasions recently, so you could well say that I've been "outed".

I'm not worried by this at all because I'm just being myself here, but it's got me thinking about how much of the "real me" comes across in these posts. Probably not very much and that seems like a bit of a waste.

If you have a blog, do your family and friends read it? Was it always that way? Did somebody ever discover it by accident? Did you change your style as a result?

* Well I sort of knew Sheila at college and Pfish and I share a couple of the same old friends...