damn. we're back to bye bye blog
oh dear. where does the time go? this time last year I was arguing with blog-city about not being able to keep my blog, and learning more than i ever wanted to know about building my own blog in my webspace. then dad went into hospital and everything went upside down. blog-city (I don't think it was just me that complained) allowed blogs to remain as they were for the time being, but now it's back to my subscription date, and I can't resubscribe unless I change blogs. Since I never finished learning how to build my own, I'm stuck with wordpress or bust. I reckon I know enough about wordpress to run a blog from there and gradually make a look that I like, but I don't know if I've time between now and saturday to individually download all my posts, as I can't just get them. So I will have to change to blog-city's new stuff and pay again while I try and get them to let me at my things, but it will be a dog's dinner while I do. Also, there's no longer a basic version, so if I don't pay, it all disappears, so keep watching carefully for an address change.....
you have been warned 
Take a look at Blogger, too. It may not be as flexible as the others in
some terms, but it's hosted, they're constantly working on improvements,
mobile blogging is integrated, and the price is right. The only thing you
pay for is a domain registration... if you're interested in having your own
domain and don't already own one.
If you wanted to host your own then I've got plenty of space ;) and if you
wanted something different to Wordpress I've been looking at "Chyrp"
http://chyrp.net looks pretty nifty and I have to admit it's looking like a
winner for my replacement website, well unless I can get me finger out in
the backend of the year and re-code mine from scratch, see am rambling
now...