Happy Easter to you all wherever you may be.
The title may give you a clue, I am going to talk about how you find a blog? It could be that you were passed a link, or you put a word or phrase into a Search Engine that gave you pages of stuff relating to that word or, maybe, you clicked on a link whilst viewing another blog.
Which ever way you find them, it always fascinates me about readership stats. Right from the very beginning of me writing my Blog in December 2011, we had a high level of Russian Dear Readers, then at the beginning of this year, it dropped dramatically and several weeks went by with not even one Russian Dear Reader reading my Blog.
So we asked ourselves, were they Russians who were reading it or foreigners who had been living there for several years?
Then this morning.. whoosh.. the stats showed that late last night and through into the early hours of this morning, whilst we were happily in Land of Nod.. aka fast asleep.. we had forty two Russian Dear Readers catching up on reading this year's posts.
Next up.. Switzerland.
Maybe one or two a month used to be the total amount of Swiss Dear Readers that we would get. Then, last night, whoosh down the slopes came twenty five Swiss reading at exactly the same time as twenty two French Dear Readers.
What brought them to my Blog, we wonder, was it the sound of egg whites being whisked to make Spicy Meringues, the smell of those tasty Pork Chops pan fried with garlic and ginger last night that we ate with Pak Cho, Choi Sum and noodles or maybe, they were alerted by the sighs as she slowly nibbled, to make it last longer, the piece of Nougat made with Pomegranate Syrup.. slurp-the-durp.
Who knows? We don't, that is for sure. What we do know that today is a dull day, old Mr.Sun is either still fast asleep or has he forgotten to put new batteries into his torch. The sky, here in deepest Knightbridge, looks as if someone has laid flat a sheet of pale grey cotton over our head, very dreary.
Gloomy, dull, boring, but at least it is not bucketing down with cold wind-driven rain, we don't have snow on the ground, it's not icy out there, we slept well, we had scrummy egg-the-peg and rye toast to break our fast and she is drinking, not slurping as it is hot, a cup of Velluto Nero.. ahh, all's well.
Why did we not eat a Hot Cross Bun this morning? Well, we only eat them over the actual Easter holiday, we don't count Maundy Thursday, so it is today's Buns she wants, fresh and then toasted.
She overheard a wonderful conversation yesterday.. it went like this.. "I don't know why people make such a fuss about these 'ere Hot Cross Buns".. said a rather too stout woman, as she stuffed a bun into her face.
Her companion, who was smartly dressed and very trim, shook her head and said "Ethel, the clue is in their name.. Hot Cross Bun.. they're supposed to be toasted and eaten with butter, not cold and not whilst walking along Shaftesbury Avenue hunting theatre tickets".
With which, we will leave you to chuckle and to look forward to your tea this afternoon with your HOT Cross Bun.. and now you understand why there are two HOT's in the title!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 3rd, 2015.
The title may give you a clue, I am going to talk about how you find a blog? It could be that you were passed a link, or you put a word or phrase into a Search Engine that gave you pages of stuff relating to that word or, maybe, you clicked on a link whilst viewing another blog.
Which ever way you find them, it always fascinates me about readership stats. Right from the very beginning of me writing my Blog in December 2011, we had a high level of Russian Dear Readers, then at the beginning of this year, it dropped dramatically and several weeks went by with not even one Russian Dear Reader reading my Blog.
So we asked ourselves, were they Russians who were reading it or foreigners who had been living there for several years?
Then this morning.. whoosh.. the stats showed that late last night and through into the early hours of this morning, whilst we were happily in Land of Nod.. aka fast asleep.. we had forty two Russian Dear Readers catching up on reading this year's posts.
Next up.. Switzerland.
Maybe one or two a month used to be the total amount of Swiss Dear Readers that we would get. Then, last night, whoosh down the slopes came twenty five Swiss reading at exactly the same time as twenty two French Dear Readers.
What brought them to my Blog, we wonder, was it the sound of egg whites being whisked to make Spicy Meringues, the smell of those tasty Pork Chops pan fried with garlic and ginger last night that we ate with Pak Cho, Choi Sum and noodles or maybe, they were alerted by the sighs as she slowly nibbled, to make it last longer, the piece of Nougat made with Pomegranate Syrup.. slurp-the-durp.
Who knows? We don't, that is for sure. What we do know that today is a dull day, old Mr.Sun is either still fast asleep or has he forgotten to put new batteries into his torch. The sky, here in deepest Knightbridge, looks as if someone has laid flat a sheet of pale grey cotton over our head, very dreary.
Gloomy, dull, boring, but at least it is not bucketing down with cold wind-driven rain, we don't have snow on the ground, it's not icy out there, we slept well, we had scrummy egg-the-peg and rye toast to break our fast and she is drinking, not slurping as it is hot, a cup of Velluto Nero.. ahh, all's well.
Why did we not eat a Hot Cross Bun this morning? Well, we only eat them over the actual Easter holiday, we don't count Maundy Thursday, so it is today's Buns she wants, fresh and then toasted.
She overheard a wonderful conversation yesterday.. it went like this.. "I don't know why people make such a fuss about these 'ere Hot Cross Buns".. said a rather too stout woman, as she stuffed a bun into her face.
Her companion, who was smartly dressed and very trim, shook her head and said "Ethel, the clue is in their name.. Hot Cross Bun.. they're supposed to be toasted and eaten with butter, not cold and not whilst walking along Shaftesbury Avenue hunting theatre tickets".
With which, we will leave you to chuckle and to look forward to your tea this afternoon with your HOT Cross Bun.. and now you understand why there are two HOT's in the title!
GeeGee Parrot.
April 3rd, 2015.
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