A personal mile stone

Forgive the excessive number of navel gazing posts that this blog has indulged in of late, and allow me one more. This it seems is my 500th post – which given I started this back in 2011 just to post a write up of Old Holborns first little walk isn’t bad going. I really don’t seem to be able to break the post every 3 days average even if it is sporadic and involves days like today when I whitter on endlessly. Anyway to celebrate I’ve cracked open a bottle of my favourite home brew, a healthy little drop made with a third espresso and a dash of rum bringing it in at a respectable 10%, so do forgive me if this post decays towards the end and if any further posts tonight make no sense at all – but rest assured that apart from the rum no duty was paid on this beer and it cost way below 40p a unit.

If you’re reading this grab a dram and toast yourselves as even though you’re a very quiet bunch I know you’re out there and I like to imagine you’re a erudite and educated bunch sitting in leather armchairs in fine smoking jackets with a minimum wage lackey reading out my blog to you so you can chortle at my political window licking.

Sad to say nothing much seems to have improved out there over these 500 blog posts, and as many finer bloggers than I have observed and bemoaned we do seem to spend a lot of time saying the same things over, in my case normally a week or so after everyone else. I claim this is due to research and my hang up from having studied physics in wanting to reference things and provided citations (or links as the cool kids call them). To be upbeat there does seem to be more interest in the politics and the goings on of our lords and masters, but so far we do all seem to be muttering into our cups, still progress is progress. Whilst talking about progress I shall digress to ascribe my progress up the buzz feeds political rankings to them having closed registration and other blogs dropping off line, a shrinking pool does after all make all fish look bigger.

On the subject of progress and so that in another 500 posts time I can see how little I’ve made here’s what I’ve learnt from blogging so far:

• A hell of a lot about common law and saying no thanks to Captain Ranty
• That demo’s can be fun thanks to OH
• How much even the petty powers that be will abuse the law to silence dissenting voices (Olly Cromwell)
• More about model railways than since I was 14 thank to Leg Iron

More seriously:

• It also turns out that I’m hopeless both at self publicity and publicity in general (see Drinkuary)
• It’s easy to get people to join a campaign on Facebook and hit a “like” button but getting that to translate into visible action is a whole different ball game
• Liking, sharing and other wise promoting posts anywhere is however important in itself
• I shouldn’t whine about lack of comments when I rarely comment myself
• Even actively invovled people are hopeless at providing feedback
• This however doesn’t matter as I’ve still not found a windmill I won’t take a tilt at

So here’s to the next 500 posts, hopefully I’ll take less time to read them as with all that’s going on now more than ever the lone blog crying in the wilderness is vital to keep an eye on our glorious leaders, and I intend to carry on linking to other people that are doing that. So to help with that and the self publicity if you’re on Facebook and reading this do consider “liking” me I post far more links and random shite there as can be seen from the widget over to the side.

So to end the 500th post in a similar way to how the first one started I’ll note that Old Holborn is going for drinks in the Boot and Flogger tomorrow (Thursday 21st March) and I’ll be toddling along to that so maybe see some of you there.

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