I know that the "page views" statistics for Blogspot.com are not the most reliable. I am aware of the activity of bots and the mass trawling of data and information by all sorts of organisations, nations and nefarious secretive operations.
In monitoring my own Blog I will have logged on many thousands of times since I started it in 2011.
My blog was never set up to earn an income or accolades- it was a genuine laying down of family stories, personal experiences, expanding on matter that interested and fascinated me. There have been jokes and April Fools, recording of momentous events and with a principal theme being local history around the place that I call home- Kingston upon Hull.
I have a small band of followers, mostly family and friends and a few of my blogs have generated comments and interaction with those of a similar mindset and interests. I'm happy to have connected complete strangers in a few cases and thrilled to have made contact with lost relations with whom I have struck up fresh communication.
Postings on my message board have shown many common interests amongst correspondents. Who would have thought that there was a huge following for a specific type of locally made roof tiles?
This posting is to celebrate quite a landmark in the history of my blog ........................
Whilst writing this bit of self promoting stuff my "All time" viewing figures have reached and passed the 1 million mark.
Thank you to everyone.
