…actually it was only four years ago today that I sat down and wrote my first blog entry – it just feels like twenty*. Since then I have had three blogs on two blog platforms, written more than a thousand posts (there’s some duplication between my WordPress and 20Six blogs) totalling perhaps 200,000 words, got 6,363 non-spam comments and had reached 133,300 hits at the time of writing.
Since then I’ve tried, and failed to give up at least once, I’ve had at least one reader not related to me from the word go, I’ve met lovely people I wouldn’t have otherwise, been on more buses, trains and trams than was strictly sensible, took up cycling again partly because it would be a good source of material, and have been able to sit through the worst that British public transport could throw at me with equanimity because it would – at least – give me something to blog about. In that, if in nothing else, it has been worth it.
*’Think what it’s like if you actually had to read it all,’ said the other half.
Happy fourth blogday! Thanks for the linked mention. I’ve always enjoyed reading your entries and hope that I’ll be continuing to do so for a good while yet. xx
What amazing statistics! Mind you, I am not surprised in view of your very perceptive and entertaining posts.
I have a statistic for you – yours was the first blog, after my daughter’s, that I added to my blogroll.
Please don’t give up.
Flighty – thanks!
JustWilliams – no fear of me giving up, I’m hooked.
yes but have you got a reader whos still with you from the start and has read it all?
You’ll have to ask Flighty that
Yes I’m fairly sure that I’ve read it all!
Congrats on your blogevity – you (and others out there on the interweb) have got me back on a bike after 20 years – losing negative weight I hasten to add, shaving with a museum piece razor (and ridding me of shaving bumps/razor rash that I’ve suffered for over 20 years), and charging around the countryside with a GPS attached like I used to when geocaching started to take hold (I remember when there were 6 whole caches in the UK – last time I looked there were 6 within 5 miles of here on the edge of nowhere)
well done, and keep it up.
John
Well if that isn’t worth a toast I don’t know what is:
“Here’s to four more years (to be going on with)”
cheers all
Paperboy-you need to start blogging again. It provided a very good local service, sadly missed
Town Mouse. Well done and you have even avoided unmasking by the Mail on Sunday never mind the Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald
Not much to unmask, frankly…
Happiness, Congratulations and the like, Miss Mouse!
cheers Pete!
Sorry I missed it but Happy 4th Blogday
Thanks!