Monday 24 December 2007

Tidings of joy

Since most visitors to a blog don't bother to view the blogger's profile, and few have any reason to view it more than once, it's encouraging to find my own profile has already been viewed 269 times.

Only seventy people have been told this blog exists, so it's clear Webside Gleanings has found a hefty audience beyond my own circle.

Thank you, folks. Hope you continue to find something here to amuse or interest you.

[prepares to sing wacky modern version of 'The Twelve Days of Christmas', but is coshed into unconsciousness]

6 comments:

Froog said...

A Merry Christmas to you, KT.

I just received your Christmas card. Many thanks.

Quite the little treasure chest you have here! I shall be back often.

It's just unfortunate that none of the BBC News links work in the dratted, censor-ridden country where I reside.

KEITH TOLSTOY said...

Very glad you like the blog, Mister Froog, though I'm sorry about those pesky censors.

Hope you're having a decent Christmas Day in that faraway-country-of-which-we-know-little.

Froog said...

Yes, indeed it was rich and strange. Not always wonderful, but overall quite stimulating.

KEITH TOLSTOY said...

Good stuff. Look forward to reading about it.

My own day was spent with my oldest friend and his family and other cronies. Not strange at all but very jolly.

ainesse said...

Hello Keith

I am in a strange frame of mind. I somehow ended up on the blogger profiles page and narrowed it down by clicking on Dunfermline but there were only 21 people there on blogspot (nothing doing !!)
Then thought I'd widen it out to Scotland and there are 6000 people on Blogspot from Scotland I am on about page 200 or near to that now. Apart from a chap called William Bennett who lives in Edinburgh and has quite an interesting blog yours has been the only other one that had any appeal at all.

So YES, I suppose the odd person does look at those things.
Your photo on there is priceless !!! Bound to make people pop along to have a look. But you ought to write a bit more about your interests. thats it for now.

Happy new year from a fellow blogger in Scotland.

KEITH TOLSTOY said...

Hi Aine,

A pleasure to find your message awaiting me on New Year's Morning.

Hadn't actually realised it was possible to reach this blog via my profile - though I'm glad you did.

Shall think about adding details of my interests, though not sure they fit easily into other people's categories. If I were to say (for example) that I'm interested in "literature" or "politics", my fear is that I'd attract hordes of visitors who know tons and tons of stuff that I don't, and who would expect me to measure up. On the other hand, if I were to list more precisely defined concerns such as "interesting people who have lived to an advanced age", I might deter potential visitors rather than drawing them in. But, as aforesaid, I will think about it.

Glad you like the photo. As you may know already, it's Ben Turpin.

I hope you too have a splendid 2008.