Saturday 20 December 2014

The END and New Beginnings . . .





As I battle away in cyberspace in a rather disjointed and odd fashion this year I have come to notice the fickleness and frail nature of what we are all doing (OK what I am doing). In fact I guess this is much like the real world of reality where we bang into things and hit our fingers with hammers and it hurts, I really need to use a hammer less or keep my eyes open while I hit stuff.  As the many of you who have viewed my blog lately will know, I have written several rather quirky Harry Potter based stories and a couple of poems, but they have not been received well. I can tell this from the page views I have been getting lately and from a high of a tiny bit under 10,000 page views in one month back earlier in the year it has now dropped below a figure I was getting back at the beginning of 2012. This decline in pageviews matching the exact point where I first started writing alternative Harry Potter stories. OK we have had our disagreements over the years and I know he is not out to get me personally and stuff, but my own stubbornness to say OK everyone so you didn't like that, so here is another one then YA SUCKS BOO to you has not helped matters.

So I can hear you are all thinking, what is the point you are trying to make in your usual long winded way that means we all get confused and don't understand a thing. Well the point is why do we actually do this, why do folk blog. What exactly is it that makes us tick and decide that we need to write our various blogs. Well for some it is self promotion maybe writing books and hoping that the very nice Steven Spielberg or someone of a similar nature will pluck them from obscurity.  Lets face it trying to climb over his electric fence drug the guard dogs and avoid the men in uniform is harder than I thought (sorry I mean a foolish idea). Some folk use their blogs to sell stuff, some to meet new friends in cyberspace and others as a way to leave a small marker in the grand master plan of life, the universe and everything. In fact this is how this blog first started when a very clever young Russian woman died having spent the last couple of years of her life meeting folk through cyberspace and Facebook. It made me realize that it is good to write and good to have a blog even if everyone else thinks your blog is entire rubbish, the point being these are my words and my drawings and my blog is unique to me. So now as folk come and go I grab my trusty pointy stick look at the impassable mountain range ahead and head off into the great unknown.  Knowing that out there in that great unknown is stuff I don’t know about, a future of as yet unseen bloggers and other such people.

So I hear you say, what has brought about this reflective pondering about what all this blogging is all about in the first place. Well and it’s a shock but the Great Bumferry Hobart creator of the blog Thoughtless Gibberish is hanging up that QWERTY keyboard of his and cyberspace will lose his quiet British wit and charm that we have all come to love. . . . It’s a great loss and a blow as he represents almost twenty five percent of my followers.

Farewell Mr H and a Merry Christmas I hope your retirement plans are like that Frank Sinatra bloke and you have a few comebacks before you finally go.


You will be missed. 

12 comments:

  1. Hmmm, that is sad. I so enjoy our connectedness in the ether world. I appreciated your email earlier today. I attended a wedding in Texas at the exact time that I would have been to the funeral in South Dakota.

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    1. As I get older I am left with two events where I almost look neat and tidy. . . Weddings and Funerals. Sadly as you get older you also find you go to more Funerals than Weddings.

      I am not good with email I never check it, so I am glad you mentioned yours on the blog.

      Although sad I think Mr H is off to do greater things with his time, like yourself he has a business to run and look after, and having done that I know it can eat time. . . . I am lucky to have some spare time to be frivolous in the voids of cyberspace these days although I dont get to visit many to read, just a tiny handful.

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  2. Tis a sad state of affairs with Mr H leaving, but I completely understand why. Since I started blogging in 2011, I've come across some hilarious blogs that have had very little attention, but the ones that are ten a penny, get a huge amount. I guess that it doesn't pay to be too different in the world of blogging. I will Miss Thoughtless Gibberish a hell of a lot.

    It's not nice looking across at all those faces on your follower's list and realizing that hardly none of them are reading. On wordpress, I've gone from having 252 followers to 5 and I honestly couldn't be any happier! At least I know that those 5 are reading.

    Keep being unique Mr Z and if you ever think about leaving the blogosphere, I will hunt you down...

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    1. I don't see myself as unique but am aware some of the posts here are not like the posts of other folk. I am hoping Mr H will still post the odd thing from time to time maybe for old times sake but who can tell. I have a feeling the less you blog the more you realise just how much time you are wasting by blogging. I am luck because I waste loads of time even if I dont blog so my overall efficiency is not compromised much . . . .

      As for those follower numbers well they will pick up with time but a small group who comment is better than two hundred followers that dont. Or worse still two hundred that do . . . . .YICKS.

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  3. Due to a lack of time, Rob, I haven't been able to read your posts for a very long time now (though I am keen to read your Harry Potter series) but I'll second Lily Jo and say that you keep being unique.


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    1. Neer I seldom pop over to your blog either as I am the worst reader of books in the world. But your Blog will remain in my short list of blogs I promote below as I still think it is one of the best book review blogs there are. . .

      I cant remember if it is appropriate to say Happy Christmas or not but I hope you are well. . . . . Its a funny old world.

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    2. Thanks Rob for these kind words.

      You are right, it's a funny old world because nowadays people say Happy Holidays rather than Merry Christmas. Too much political correctness, I guess.

      Anyway, wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Hope to frequent your blog more in 2015.

      Cheers.

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  4. Hi human, Rob,

    No matter what, I've always endeavoured to make it here, eventually. I do know that I'm so far behind in the old commenting malarky, that a number of humans and some animals, have unfollowed my site. Pawbably because I'm really struggling to be interactive and proactive.

    Tis sad that Thoughtless Gibberish would give up on thoughtless gibberish.

    In peace and pawsitivity,

    Penny :)

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    1. Happy Christmas Penny I hope you get some turkey, beef or chicken. . .

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  5. I write just because I think I am funny. I think you're funny as well. Life just has a way of getting in the way though, I hope that you continue to do what makes you giggle, viewers be damned.

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    1. Yes indeed DAMN those viewers (not the nice Mr Steven Spielberg) BAH HUMBUG is what I say. . . . . (I dont mean it folk honest).

      Now look what you made me do Mr Flip. . . .

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