After much to-ing and fro-ing it looks as if BRIAN's Culture Blog is finally arriving at lift-off.

As is usual with me starting a blog (see my early mumblings for my Education Blog) my early postings will be no more than throat clearing, establishing the channel of communication, achieving a degree of rapport - but without saying anything much. I'll be checking that it works, that the comments work, that I know how to delete things, add things, edit things, and other whatnottery.

But don't worry. There'll be plenty of Grand Cultural Pronouncements in the days, weeks, months and years to come.

One thing you must understand though. My Samizdata duties are just that, duties. And I am putting stuff up on my Education Blog on every week day, and not infrequently at the weekend also. But this thing will be added to only when the mood strikes. It will be up to me and the other BCBlog regulars to alert the blogosphere in general to any flashes of brilliance, as and when they strike, if any of us thinks it has, given that a large number of regulars seems an unlikely result of my creative attitude.

Which is not to say that I won't post lots of stuff day after day, merely that if I do that will be me being whimsically productive, not dutifully productive.

Well, that will do for now. As I said, just clearing the throat really.