Graham bemethavinci what do you mean ?
you can create your own blog without even using the blog function

A blog is just a collection of pages with some way of commenting
Just create a folder of pages
Possibly using file includes so that you can change the framework data in all pages without having to edit them all
if you save a template of the page in file_presets it appears in the create new file menu in folders
then you can add something like htmlcommentbox to take care of the comments
then use a filelist function to display the pages and take care of pagination

I could set that up fairly easy
which css template ?
I would prefer to just use bootstrap but whatever you want w3css ? foundation ?
I know that html comment box has a bootstrap template option