250,000

Visitors here since January 2008.
Gulp!
Thanks.
 

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It may be too much to hope for that anyone would wish to know when this blog has updated. However one reader requested the facility and  it is now available just under the flag on the left hand column.
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Back Soon

Yup, the blogosphere will just have to survive without me for a few days. I’m off to recharge my batteries and rediscover my mojo.
Please feel free to look through some of the old posts in my absence.

200,000

Sometime today this obscure outpost of the internet will welcome its 200,000th visitor since January 2008 according to the WordPress counter in the right hand column.
I’m told that WordPress blogs are better at getting up the search engines than any others which would perhaps explain why there are currently an average of over 500 visitors [...]

Back in a Bit!

Normal Service Resumed ASAP!

Taking a Break

I’m off to blog rehab for a while.
In the meantime I’ve timed a selection of short posts (some of them reprises of old posts) and bon mots to hopefully keep you looking in until my return.

Back in a Bit!

Have to move the PC for impending laminate floor installation.
Toodle pip until Tuesday!

Just to Let You Know

Bill’s funeral is on Thursday (21st May) at 2:15pm. at Cardross Crematorium and afterwards at Helensburgh Golf Club.
There are family flowers only and a collection will be made for Cancer Research.

150,000

I just noticed that this blog passed that number of hits this week. It took a year to hit 100,000 and only four months for the next 50,000.
Thanks to everyone who looks in here – especially those who comment. And thanks also to all far and wide who have mentioned that they read regularly but [...]

Sorry John

I received a very nice email from John MacTaggart who pointed out that I had used his picture in my post about Robert Burns here without giving him or his company credit. Furthermore I had hotlinked to the photo which had affected John’s band width. I have now sorted that out and with John’s permission [...]