Strange interests

Regular readers of this blog will recall that, just over a week ago, I wrote a post about my own experiences of punishment and boredom in my own school days. I illustrated it with a photo of the belt/tawse/strap with which I was issued at the start of my teaching career in Glasgow. Quite apart from the comments which the post itself aroused, I'm fascinated by the traffic to the blog and to the photo itself on flickr. At the time of writing, the photo has been specifically viewed 70 times in the past week, and a trawl through the details of my stats shows that several links came from a search for belting which may be thoroughly educational in intent or may not.

Interesting, don'tcha think?

10,000 hits

A self-regarding post: my 10,000th visitor arrived this morning through Kelvin's blog. I'm sure this was an appropriate referral, complete with blessings. It's taken just over a year for this number of hits to mount up, at a current average of 34 per day. Not many, when I look at the numbers on other blogs - but not bad for retirement maunderings.

Actually, I've had an interesting proposition from Liz the other day: that I should post more about the actual business of teaching English. I'll look forward to this - but for now I'm going off-blog for a bit. Watch this space - I'll be back!

A landmark

I notice from my stats that blethers is within 50 visits of its ten thousandth visitor. It'd be pleasing if this landmark could be reached tomorrow - and interesting to see where the hit originates from.

And it'd be almost more pleasing if tomorrow's weather forecast turns out to be accurate and we see some sun in this benighted realm.