About Gravy

So, what is this blog about, and why am I writing it?

The somewhat deluded answer to why I am writing the blog is that I think I’m going to be discovered and be proclaimed the Samuel Pepys of the twenty-first century, at which point someone will offer me oodles of cash to write for a living.

Luckily, I’m only deluded for part of the time.

The actual answer is slightly more mundane.  I’ve always wanted to be able to write for a living, but unfortunately I suffer from a terrible affliction: I’m a lifelong ‘quitter’.  In the words of Billy Ocean, when the going gets tough, Steven gets going. For many years, I just sat around and thought about writing. I had plenty of ideas for stories but since they stayed firmly within my brain, then they didn’t really count.  I eventually took a step forward in 2002 when I bought myself a notebook in order to at least make a token gesture towards writing.  This worked, up to a point, but, with six-month gaps between entries, any momentum I gained was pretty much killed right away.  I also started two novels in this period, and both sadly fell by the wayside.

I got around to starting my own blog in May 2007, the wonderful (if I may say so), The World Of Sherby57.  It’s not what I would call a normal blog; rather than talk about things that interest me, it tends to be a collection of weird and surreal ideas, that are effectively private jokes with myself.  I enjoy writing for Sherby57 immensely, but stream of consciousness nonsense doesn’t necessarily lead to very disciplined writing.

As time went on, I felt that I should challenge myself and try and write about some ‘real’ things.  I started to play with the idea of writing about topics of interest to me, rather than just express whatever gibberish floats off the top of my head.  Since I didn’t really want to change the tone of the other blog, then I decided to create Pour Some Gravy On Me.  Having got as far as my ‘about page’, you should have noticed that it is a somewhat more conventional blog.

PSGOM was created originally on Blogger in November 2008, but after a 4 month hiatus of both blogs between January and May 2009, I decided it was time to get Gravy over to WordPress and start afresh.  I say afresh, but all the older entries came along with me.

I’m quite open to writing about anything on here, but usual topics include television, football (particularly Liverpool FC), and reading.  I’ve written a disturbingly large amount of posts to do with reality TV, which makes me deeply question my lifestyle choices.  There is also a campaign to brighten up fridges in offices up and down the land with my Milk Bottle Manifesto.

Now, at this point, there is a good chance that you will be shouting at the screen, ‘Yes, but Steven, where the hell does the name “Pour Some Gravy On Me” come from?’  Well, just calm down a minute, and I’ll tell you.  The original name that I came up with was ‘An Audience of None’, for pretty self explanatory reasons.  Sadly (but maybe fortunately), this name was already taken, and I had to think something up on the fly.  In search of a title that was at least vaguely memorable, I searched Sherby57 for ideas.  I’m sure that you are way ahead of me as I tell you that one of the posts was called: Pour Some Gravy On Me

This was based on a story I heard, where someone thought it was extremely posh that someone they knew didn’t know what gravy was. Personally, I’d call it a sign of stupidity, but then, I really am a massive oik, and what would I know?  The title was just a play on the song title, ‘Pour Some Sugar On Me’, by poodle haired Yarkshiremen Def Leppard. I was pretty pleased with my creativity until, since the creation of PSGOM, I googled it and found that some had put this on Youtube:

And that should tell you pretty much all you need to know.  I hope you stick around and have a read of my posts, and, if you’re feeling frisky, maybe leave a comment or two.

Keep drinking that gravy,

Ste