100,000 Visits!
I mentioned in the last post that I was keeping an
eye on the number of visits to my Blog. Well, in the
wee small hours of 2 February visits reached
100,000! As I said, I last mentioned blog visits back
in Post 140 when the number of visits had reached
50,000 – at this time last year. But while the first
50,000 had taken nearly two years to accrue (since
May 2012), the next 50,000 had taken only 12
months.
To be honest, I didn’t know whether 100,000 visits in
three years was a large or small amount of traffic in
the vast Blogophere. I certainly knew that personal
websites like mine couldn’t compete with blogs set
up with commercial blogging software and social-
networking tools – never mind my niche subject
matter. However, 100,000 was certainly a total that
brought a smile to the face of the Napoleon of this
project and spurred me on to a hopeful next 100,000!
Hearing from new visitors to my 1809 Blog is always
a pleasure! You can leave a message here:
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Annual Painting Competition
February also brought with it the annual Pendraken painting competition
(see Post 143). And with the painting competition, the annual apprehension
of what – if anything – to submit.
However it was always a shame not to join in, if only for the fun of it, and
after the surprise at my small success last year (see Post 144), it seemed
mean to keep all my troops back at barracks.
As I mentioned in Post 181, I was getting used to buying a new Winsor and
Newton Series 7 00 brush once a year and, just in time for the painting
competition, a brand new one arrived in the post, handy for any painting I
might be tempted to do before the deadline for competition entries on the
last day of the month.
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