Keep it 100

This is my 100th blog post and I have been wondering ever since my 99th posting how to mark it. Should it be a blog history retrospective? Should it be 100 lines long, or just 100 characters? Inspiration eluded me all week until I stumbled across a 'young person' phrase - keep it 100. On the face of it, this seems yet another piece of youthful exuberance that defies obvious translation. Clearly this will mean that within a couple of generations the English language will be as opaque as Chaucer's English is to us today. As the great man said himself in the Wife of Bath's Prologue,

"I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke,

That hath but on hole for to sterten to"

Wise words indeed. The couplet roughly translates as  - a  mouse that only has one hole cannot have a soul. Good rodent that I am I have always tried to follow it as a credo to live my life by, although that mainly manifests itself through the excessive consumption of cheese.

Anyway, back to the original point of this blog, to 'keep it 100' is described by the online urban dictionary as, 'to keep yourself real and true, to be honest and stick to the way you are, no matter what any one else thinks.'

Well if there was ever a phrase that defined what this blog has tried to do then keep it 100 is it. Hard though it may be to imagine not everyone agrees with me and my philosophy on life, museums and everything. But I am content in the knowledge that I keep it 100! My opinions are my own, they will continue to remain my own, not try to court popularity (at least that's how I justify my dismally small blog readership) or try to find easy solutions to the complexities of modern museum work. So I go on undaunted, undiminished and unread.

Therefore may I wish you all keep it 100 in 2015.

 Myself - I intend to keep it 200 - unless that has another meaning, in which case I'd better look it up before I commit myself to a year of unspeakable young person activity.

Seasons Greetings