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# Blogging for sanity's sake
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2011/06/blogging_for_sanitys_sake/
- Published: 2011-06-22T11:28:09.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T15:14:19.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Blogging, isolation, sanity, Social Media

[Tom Jones](http://www.llanevandiary.blogspot.com/?ref=onemanandhisblog.com) tells the story of a farmer who blogged his way away from the precipice of madness:

> It was my sister, ensconced within her warm east London office, who suggested I turn a roughly cobbled together email into a blog. Blogs, she informed me, were far more accessible, as followers can go at any time to a page constantly blossoming with stories.The result has been supremely satisfying. “[Swallow the key](http://llanevandiary.blogspot.com/2010/05/swallow-key.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)” is one of my favourite blog entries and there isn’t a talking animal to be seen. It was written in May last year after a hard winter when sheep were deciding that heaven was a better option. To be able to speak out about the pressures of farming and how close it can bring some farmers to oblivion was wholly rewarding.

I often say when giving speeches that people don’t realise that the word “social” is the most important half of social media. I think this story underpins that point.

The [full story is in ](http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/21/127435/Farmer-blogs-his-way-out-of-the-madness.htm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com)*[Farmers Weekly](http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2011/06/21/127435/Farmer-blogs-his-way-out-of-the-madness.htm?ref=onemanandhisblog.com).*