People like Meike from Ludwigsburg, Germany; Keith from Red Deer, Canada; Jennifer from South Carolina and Steve from West London almost seem like family to me. My association with them goes way back in time and of course they produce their own blogs which I keep visiting through the months and years.
You just need to look at my sidebar to get an idea of my blog orbit. In recent years, new favourites have emerged such as Bob Slatten's "I Should Be Laughing", Bruce Springsteen's Taylor's "Oddball Observations", JayCee Manx's "Nobody's Diary" and David Godfrey's "Travel Penguin". In blogging, nothing ever seems to be permanently fixed. As in life, you have to move on. No sense in always wallowing in the past.
I like the fact that some of my regular visitors do not actually produce blogs of their own. That doesn't really matter. Here I am thinking about people like Carol in Spain (Coppa's Girl), Ellen in Illinois and Traveller from I know not where. Thank you for coming here. I hesitate but I would like to use the term: friends. Yes, friends.
Occasionally, commenters will breeze in leave one or two comments and then disappear for good. Perhaps that will be the case with someone called "P.Wright". He appeared for the first time in relation to a post I published on September 14th. It was about the Reform Party rally in London and the appearance of Elon Musk on big screens. I titled this post "Terrorist". "P.Wright" has only attracted ten page views and does not have his own blog. This is what he wrote:-
Veni
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Sorry couldn’t help myself…well I could but decided not to!
Thank you for mentioning me and including me as a friend. I do always speak of my blogger friends and think of you all as my penpals from around the world.
ReplyDeleteWasn't me, Your Honour.
ReplyDeleteWell played my friend.
ReplyDeleteI am back for now so watch out.
ReplyDeleteP.Wright seems entirely P.Wrong.
ReplyDeleteI agree about the blogs and love finding new ones to check out, so thanks for you mentions.
Oh well. Who cares about people like Pee Right?
ReplyDeleteI always read YP but comment sometimes sporadically , but I always read x
ReplyDeleteI come here for the quizzes. But you know that.
ReplyDeleteWell said that man. (and I love Traveller's summary - precis of your post)
ReplyDeleteThank you for counting me among your friends, Neil. Likewise!
ReplyDeleteThe only really stupid/nasty comment I ever had on my blog was when I reviewed "The Audacity of Hope" by Barak Obama. I left that comment standing and the troll who left it never resurfaced. Long may he or she rest in the dirty mud of his or her own mind.
For those of us who haven't been mentioned as a friend what shall we do? I would say on the nasty comment problem is that we have to accept that not all agree with us and just shake it off as difference of opinion.
ReplyDeleteHe does sounds like the sort of person you don't want hanging around.
ReplyDeleteI think that I probably only comment to you when there is a quiz , but I refer to the people whose blogs I read as my " blog friends". Not many of my day to day pals read blogs and I explain it as bit like a pen friend. It much more enjoyable when comments get replies, and all my favourites do ( reply!)
ReplyDeleteIs there another quiz soon? Flowers? Dogs? Literature?
P.Wright annoys me as he doesn't have a space in his name after the dot.
ReplyDeleteNottingham Carnival is the kind of mistake I would make, as a non local person.
Non blogging commenters and those who have a blog and never reply to comments and never mention anything personal are interesting, as over time you slowly learn some detail about them.
It never ceases to amaze me how many people bother to write "nasty" comments or opinions on random public social media. I rarely write all that much about controversial topics so haven't had to deal with all that much of that kind. But I always remove comments from strangers that feel like "spam", whether political or just advertising.
ReplyDeletei've been trying to pee right all my life but i still miss!!!
ReplyDeleteThose trolls are everywhere these days. I suspect most of them originate from Troll Farms in Russia.
ReplyDeleteThank you for considering me to be a friend YP. Yours is one of the few blogs that I comment on regularly, though I do read several more and just comment occasionally.
ReplyDeleteI read every day but am a lazy arse and don't often comment.😁
ReplyDeleteP.Wright is obviously a pseudonymuncle. "anonymous internet commenters out there, spouting off while their opinions are just as consequential as a distant relative’s bad advice" according to today's wordsmith.org
ReplyDeleteMy blog is so innocuous I don't get unwanted comments, although I did have an American woman trying to tell me that mammogram screening for breast cancer did more harm than good, and was a money making scam carried out by all those hundreds of thousands of doctors and nurses around the world.
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