Category: break from the blog

Resolve

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Happy New Year, readers!

I’m generally not the sort to go around making New Year’s Resolutions (although, yes, I have done it on here in the past). But if I want to change something I am doing, I don’t feel that I have to wait until January 1st to sort it out.

However, actually there are a couple of things that I am doing that I feel I might want to change, and today* seems like quite a good time to do that.

So: fewer plastic bags this year, get my knee fixed this year (I have an appointment with the surgeon next week) and get fit(ter) again, and more photography, drone flying and blogging [audience groans] this year.

I’m sure that there was something else as well, but it escapes me for the moment. Probably the effect of all that brandy on my brain.

And no, cutting down on that isn’t the missing item on my list.

 

 

* well, “today” really, because this is one of those break from the blog posts.

2017 Blog Stats

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This year, you – dear 6000 miles… reader – have been served a total of 420 posts (an average of 1.15 per day) comprising of an incredible 95,957  words (an average of 228.5 per post) from 4 different countries (an average of 1 every three months, dur!) on this site.
I know – the countries bit seems a bit lame with amongst all those other big numbers – but they were actually often the most exciting bits.

November was (for some reason) my most prolific: 11,337 words in 40 posts. (Only one country though.)
What was I thinking?
Mainly stuff about nurdles, apparently.

Join me then next year, when there will be plenty more letters arranged into generally correct and meaningful order.

Have a safe and enjoyable New Year.

6000 out.

Popular photo

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There will always be new uploads for you to view on my Flickr page. Some are more popular than others. The addition of a drone to my camera armoury has been a big boon to my paltry stats (not that I got it for that).

Two of my most viewed shots this year were taken with the Mavic. And the winner(?) with 1,300 views on the site was this one:

Suiderstand, Rasperpunt and along the coast towards the Southernmost tip of Africa from 100m up.

I don’t think it was my best shot, but since life seems to be just one big popularity contest these days, maybe by some metric or other, it actually was.

The 29th

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If you’re going to get this break from the blog thing right, you going to have to pre-write quite a few posts.
Weirdly, those for the 26th, 27th, 28th and 30th fell neatly into place. And the 31st almost wrote itself.

But then it all fell apart when I tried to add something for the 29th.

And though I racked the deepest recesses of my mind, I could think of nothing to write.

 

I’m very sorry to say that in the end, I gave up.