No Number Posting

This posting doesn’t have a number. Tomorrow it will be the 3000^th and final story. I don’t want to clutter the last tale with statistics so I’m doing the statistical thing now, and won’t let the congratulatory wine and lamingtons muddle the final posting.

Statistics:

There were three thousand stories over ten years – roughly. About a hundred poems. And about 500 music compositions.

I’m not going to mention names because it would go on forever; for example I won’t mention that Andrea Stephenson of Harvesting Hecate, followed a close second by Author Sarah Angleton and Marina of Letters from Athens and Chris Nelson, is the longest faithful follower. And that Uma of One Grain Amongst the Storm has made the most comments, followed by Noelle of Sayling Away, etc. etc. and already I can hear you cry “But what about me?” (I told you so).

I am most grateful for the 10 years of lovely people I have met and become friends with, for example Max of PowerPop… An Eclectic Collection of Pop Culture who spent hours trying to fix a computer fault on our machine – and he lives on the other side of the world! And there’s Yvonne from Australia who during hard covid times cheered our doldrums with a surprise box of wines! And already I can hear you cry “But what about me?” (I told you so).

There are two people who are no longer with us that I would like to mention. There’s probably more but they forgot to tell us. There was Pauline King of Dunedin, New Zealand, who never missed an occasion to comment – and who happened to live on the same street as once did my great great grandparents in the 1880s. The other was the lovely Cynthia Jobin from Rumford, Maine, whose poems delighted many and her considered comments delighted people even more. And already I can hear you cry “But what about me?” (I told you so).

Then there are favorite people who have disappeared off the radar, such as Prospero’s Island and araneus1 and Oscar Alejandro Plascensia.

I will still be reading blogs and commenting here and there. And if something of interest crops up I could well do a posting! But it won’t be regular. I want a change of scene after a decade – although I’m not sure what yet. It could be a novel or a symphony or just a bothersome terminal illness! This blog started when I broke my leg – let’s hope history doesn’t repeat.

So thanks one and all for reading, for commenting, and for posting interesting blogs yourselves, such as Dumbest Blog Ever and The Haps with Herb and Ordinary Person and Cindy Knoke and Iseult Murphy and Observation Blogger and Chel Owens and GP and Sylvie Ge and rachelmankowitz and itchingforhitching and Obbverse and Poetry from John Looker and Town & Country Gardening and Alex Raphael and Pacific Paratrooper and Talkalittledo – For Life Is Funny and arlingwoman and Inese and Keith Kreates and .. oh goodness I warned you. Already I can hear you cry “But what about me?”

As you reach the peak of your life and go over the hill, may your downward slide be as graceful as possible.