Category: This blog and its milestones

I asked a simple question and in under six days 908 people responded: Now that’s quite clear. We have no way of knowing who these people were – the survey was promoted on social media and was open to any to answer (but that doesn’t mean that the respondents were anything like representative). But the…

Last year was the first year that this blog received over a million pageviews in a year – and that milestone was reached in mid November. This year it was reached on 1 October. Thank you for your attention.

I’ll be sending out a newsletter this morning. If you’d like to subscribe then have a look here and sign up, free, if you’d like to get occasional emails from me. You’ll be joining over 4000 subscribers.

With 119,378 pageviews and 28,301 readers this was a record June for this blog. In fact, in terms of the number of readers this is the most successful month for this blog since its high point in August 2016 when there was great interest in my epetition to ban driven grouse shooting as it approached…

This is the 7500th blog to appear on this site since April 2011, but it seems appropriate, because of the date, to go back to the 46th which was posted on 1 June 2011 after visiting the battleground of the Little Bighorn in Montana. Why is it appropriate? Because the battle of the Little Bighorn,…

Over the past nine years (approximately) this blog has had 7 million page views. The plot above is a monthly charting of that. Good, bad or irrelevant?

There have been over 190 votes cast for your favourite entry in this blog’s Lockdown Nature-writing challenge. Voting will close on Sunday evening after I have watched the last episode of Primates on TV. The voting is largely for fun but the more people who vote, the more the authors will feel that their work…

At the time of writing there have been 91 votes cast for your favourite of the dozen entries (probably more by now) in this challenge to write about nature and lockdown. One entry has 20 of the 91 votes and one has a single vote: and the rest are strung out pretty evenly across the…

I received over 40 entries to this blog’s Lockdown Nature-writing challenge – you can choose your favourite. Here is a list of the dozen shortlisted entries, with links, so that you can reach them all from here. Entry A Entry B Entry C Entry D Entry E Entry F Entry G Entry H Entry I…

Lockdown Birdwatch  In between wondering just how much chocolate I must buy to make it last a whole week and working on university assignments, I have spent many hours during lockdown in the back garden waiting for birds. Waiting with my camera to hand. I probably shouldn’t have my camera – that would, after all,…