I realised a while ago, to my near-total horror, that all this work and writing I’ve done over the last fourteen years was all on this BLOG but it wasn’t backed-up anywhere else!
I know, I know … I’d always just assumed that WordPress wouldn’t collapse on me and (touch wood), it hasn’t so far. But I needed to get the situation squared away so I’ve spent many evenings cutting and pasting the whole damned thing up to 2018 – some +700 posts and pages – in to Word documents which I’ve since turned in to PDF files.
It became quickly apparent during this process: I had no idea how much I’d written and that one document or file would just make my laptop explode, so I ended up producing one volume for each year I’ve been doing this. They are now safely stored in a few different e-locations and I’ve even printed out a copy and put them in folders to shove in the garage and drag ‘round for the rest of my life and make my son do it once I’m dead!
My life’s work in a box, etc., etc.!
- Volume One covers 2011 as well as also various odds and sods, inc the Quick Guides.
- Volume Two (2012)
- Volume Three (2013)
- Volume Four (2014)
- Volume Five (2015)
- Volume Six (2016)
- Volume Seven (2017)
- Volume Eight (2018)
- Volume Nine for 2019 … pending.
- Volume Ten for 2010 … pending.
- Volume Eleven for 2021 … pending.
- Volume Twelve for 2022 … pending.
- Volume Thirteen for 2023 … pending.
- Volume Fourteen for 2024 … pending.
- Volume Fifteen for 2025 … pending.
- Volume Sixteen for 2026 … pending.
As things stand, this is around 950,000 words of text.
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Michael./
Awarded the President’s Medal by
the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Winner of the Mind Digital Media Award
All views expressed are my own – they do not represent the views of any organisation.
(c) Michael Brown, 2026
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