Tragedy. Our former blog died, it ceased to exist. It was no more. Our hosting site took early retirement leaving us with a sense of abandonment and no blog.
This is the start of its replacement.

Our blog didn’t win Blog of the Year. Again. That’s three consecutive years it’s been on the Shortlist and all it has to show for that feat is three ‘Highly Commended’ awards.

Not even a rosette!

Oh well, que, sera, sera.

We have over 330,000 ‘unique’ followers by now, it’s over 337,000 actually, so we’re not too disheartened.

What’s different this year is having not one but two separate blog posts being singled out for a ‘Best Single Blog Posts’ award. They’re on very different subjects but recognition of any kind is welcome. Feed the ego; body and soul. That’s never a bad idea.

If you’re interested in what critics think (!) the two posts they selected for special praise are:

Hippie Life in Spain

and

Party for Grownups

You’ll find them and much else besides in the list of titles, almost 200 separate postings on a wide diversity of subjects and locations.

As for awards… Well, as we’ve had well over 337,000, yes, that’s THRE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-SEVEN THOUSAND individual readers by now, we must be doing something right. Anything over ten thousand readers meant we’d arrived in the Bloggin’ Premier League, so hitting 337,000 plus is just WOW!

Who needs awards anyway?

Stop Press.

We may not have won Blog of the Year, but our blog post Only the Lonely, written during Covid-19 Lockdown, has been chosen from a few million other offerings as the Best ‘Pandemic’ Blog Post by the very clever people who judge this sort of thing for a living. We like critics!

The rosette must be in the post…