fifty.
Look, I know it's a good age to be!
But 50 followers is where I seem to stay.
Fellow bloggers who joined at a similar time to me,
have stormed away.
Alright they have interesting and
informative crafting blogs like...
150 recipes for placenta
Making furniture out of discarded
milk cartons
Creative crochet with air-dried cat crap
Felting with navel fluff
Macrame patterns for bikinis
made from Abel and Cole string
Garden grottos fashioned from
unloved Lego and egg boxes
Baler twine knitting patterns
for bullet-proof thongs
Baler twine knitting patterns
for bullet-proof thongs
Gathering the hedgerows bounty
of dog poo bags and turning them
into thought provoking
Christmas tree decorations.
(It's amazing what transformations can be
made with Pritt and spray sparkle)
Senna cake recipes to serve to
ensure the mother-in-law
never again comes for tea
I'm seriously hacked oft;
my saying outrageous things offends some,
and what upsets me, is that men
(being sexist here... sorry!)
can get away with it.
I say something vaguely (alright... very) naughty
and folk drop off.
I'm doing it for me
I'm doing it for me
I'm doing it for me
or am I?
As I sit here this wet and cold miserable
Saturday morning I definitely am.
All is quiet in the house and I'm happy.
Not a bad place to be is it?
I think you'd better count again!
ReplyDeleteThank you Wooly dog. I was only looking at your blog this morning.
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LL, your blog comes through my Blogger reading list, but I have now officially upped your follwing to 52 :). We Aussies would say, "whinging POMS" ~ but I am too polite for that (cough) x
ReplyDeleteTouche, my darling girl. But wait, I thought you were already a follower. Perhaps when you flounced off in a hissy fit (British humour) perhaps you fell off.
ReplyDeleteNow look here lassie, when we meet, you and I must have a serious chat about British humour. Added to which, a good wholesome whinge is so good for the soul.
What the frigging heck is Blogger reading list?
LLX
P.S. Love the new photo, a new you perchance?
LL, you are the best therapy a girl could ask for :) Too hard to explain what Blogger reading list is in 140 characters or less. I will write you a blog post about it. Rug up and keep warm x
DeleteI see you have been at it for 3 years! I only found you recently but you are maturing nicely in my cupboard so keep at it and don't watch your figures. Eco Ethel xx
ReplyDeleteWhat like a ripe Brie? Wash your mouth out Ethel... 'Maturing nicely' Mature and nice in the same sentence are unpardonable.
DeleteI've 'been at it' for longer than three years... but that's for another time, another space, another universe...best not go there...
LLX
And another thing... I've been over to yours before... what's all this circles business? Got dizzy and like the old News of the World reporters...'made my excuses and left'!?!
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My polka dots? That's cyber space...have you been at the dizzy water again? I'll impress you with my dried placenta decorations if you give me another chance. Best wishes from the mature and very nice Eco Ethel xx
DeleteA new blogger myself, 50 followers seems monumental.
ReplyDeleteAnd to be happily content at home on a rainy Saturday is another achievement.
' Rediscovering the joy of writing and the worlds that it opens.'
DeleteI've lifted that... only for here, mind! Exactly how I feel.
Yes, Marty I am a very happy girl, lucky too.
LLX
Oooh you are having a rant! Blogging confuses me - not that it takes much, I think it is just hard to keep abreast of everything as a lot of people who follow your blog have facebook, Etsy, etc etc to update daily, it does take a vast amount of time and as Viv has once said it's relentless. I have remained at the same amount of followers for a long time but I think you have a lot more followers than you realise, just that some may not want to comment or no how to. I read many blogs and never even thought to comment for a long time. Take heart Linda we do love you! I love your naughtiness, I couldn't be that brave, but I love it that you are. love one of your most enthusiastic followers!!!!
ReplyDeleteLook Jayne, I've always been a bolshy moo, added to which I love being outrageous. I went down a storm at mother and toddler coffee mornings eons ago, as I'm sure you can well imagine (not!) As I said to a friend this week, goodness knows where my blog posts come from. I feel them building up inside, much like a boil, they need a good lancing. I then feel hugely better 'til the next time. In the unlikely event of me being asked to do a weekly column, I'd be totally stuffed. I couldn't perform to order and that is what I really, really like about blogging... the freedom.
DeleteFriends who read my blog have on lots of occasions said, we love reading them, but never know what to say. And I must confess I can see where they're coming from, because even I'd be hard pushed to comment. Funny old world, good though.
LLX
Fifty? FIFTY? I DREAM of fifty followers! Oddly though, it's never the same fifty from dream to dream.
ReplyDeleteI think I'm following you like flatulence follows a horse. I hope I'm following you. I've entered passwords and things for every atheist-forsaken Google account that Google has somehow given me.
Oh dear, now I'm all of a dither and will have to go outside and shoot the heads off some of the statues until the feeling goes away.
Chin-chin.
My dear chap, if anybod should have an army of followers, it must surely be YOU. It has long been known that the hoi polloi have absolutely no taste, this in my book merely illustrates the fact. Added to which, if you MUST spend so much of your time with the great unwashed on Twittersphere, you need look no further than the bathroom mirror of a morn. The answer will be writ large on your phizog, just gently peel back the Bronco covering the nicks.
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ah, quality no quantity!
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ReplyDeleteI agree with ed and bunny (tee hee)
ReplyDeleteAfter all, our friend Mr OW has one of our favourite blogs but not a huge number of followers. Rare & exquisite things can be an acquired taste!
Nilly and Bunny, let's all get over to Mr OW's and boost his followers. You never know, that may get him away from this awful tweeting affliction. That, or I send him some of my freshly Baked Senna Alaska, his numbers will sore!
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Scared! Jane x
ReplyDeleteWhy?
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Hello LL
ReplyDeleteI'm still reading but haven't commented as much as I should! Your blog is a pleasure to read - thought provoking and funny in equal measure. Keep up the good work.
And remember that all of your followers are people who really, really want to read your musings & not just follow you in the hope of winning a giveaway (lovely though the giveaways may be).
I couldn't agree more about the giveaways Glynis.
ReplyDeleteIt's just that I get an only child wobble once in a while. Instead of screaming and screaming until I'm sick a la Miss Bott, I just fire off a 'poor me' trembling lip post, hiccup a few times and then feel better.
Thank you for your kind words and don't feel you have to comment.
LLX
Who looks for reasons to be offended when someone is being superbly creative and expressing themselves in their blog ~ no drop off here . I must visit more often ( can you see me under my my caped disguise ...can"t have any one recognizing me in my alter ego (heh) ...now back to my giveaways ;)
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