Happy New Year everyone, and thanks for coming to visit. I’m always a little amazed that people come and read about life up here, and I’ve met such interesting people in the last eight months since starting on this journey. Thank you for enriching my life.
I plan a longer post soon, on New Years up here, possibly including some video if I can summon the energy to edit it. In the mean time here are some snippets of information for you.
bootstrap analysis, my inspiration, is the host for the current Circus of the Spineless. Check out her new search engine she used to find "little things that run the world". Now where else are you going to find posts ranging from strange Japanese mollusc wrestling films to fly sex.
And speaking of search engines and sex, I finally got a truly strange hit from a google query. Someone linked to my post about paper field guides with a query "my wife wants to use a stap on (sic) on me". Oookaaayy.
I’ve also found a new blog that I’m keen on… pohanginapete hails from New Zealand and features wonderful writing, and brilliant photos (or is that brilliant writing and wonderful photos?). In one of those serendipidous moments I found him through a comment on Rurality‘s year end post, then I found he has a post in the above mentioned Circus of the Spineless and then I see that he has a link to a poet from Manitoba’s blog that was recommended to me by Anita, the woman who has lived everywhere I have (just not at the same time).
But finally, alas, another of my favourite writers Jon Christianson of the Uneasy Chair has just announced that he is leaving the blogosphere and will post no longer. He promises to be around in other projects and I certainly hope so. Going to miss reading you Jon.
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Boy, there’s nothing I hate more than when people get to my blog by misspelling the names of sex aids. One of my weirder searches recently was “dual purpose goats.” I hope this person didn’t have sex in mind when he did that search…
Dual purpose goats? Perhaps it was innocent…perhaps the searcher was looking for a critter that would mow the lawn and eat the dishes too.
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Happy new Year Clare!
Happy New Year, Clare! I’m one of those fans who stops by because I am intrigued by life in the far, far north. Blogs give us eyes in places we will never personally see. I am grateful for the view!
Happy New Year! I’m one that stops by because of the different life style, the writting tallent of the blogger and I want to see your house done.
Thanks for the recommendation, Clare! Coincidental, too, that in a recent post I included a quote from Bruce Chatwin’s The Songlines, where a tramp he met described himself as being like an Arctic tern, flying from pole to pole. I might not be in Antarctica (yet), but you don’t get much closer than NZ. I guess the web’s a kind of virtual tramp?
Thanks y’all.
Dual purpose goats? I wonder if you can upgrade from the old single purpose ones? What was the post about that the search hit? I’m still trying to figure out what stap ons have to do with Peterson’s.
And Dave, I’m with you. I want to see the house done also. Oh how I want to see the house done.
Love Chatwin’s writing pohanginapete. (I wonder if I’m ever going to be able to spell that without having to look at it). I consider myself very lucky to have seen Arctic Terns at both polar regions. Beautiful birds in beautiful landscapes.
Now to sit back and wait for the google query “Bruce Chatwin’s book on dual purpose goats with Arctic Tern stap ons”
One of my most common hits comes from the title “Dogs gone wild”. I think most people who use this search term and hit upon my blog move on sadly disappointed.
-Happy New Year
Pat
Happy New Year to you Clare, I too have added Pohanginapete to my Bookmarks!
Happy New Year, Clare! Just catching up on your wonderful writing… I thought of you on Xmas Eve as my nephew and I watched a show called “Journeys Far & Wild” about John and Janet Foster who travelled to Artic Bay then komatiq-ed four hours to see the Narhwals. What spectacular scenery! You are, as I’m sure you know, one lucky guy. My nephew (7) insisted that it couldn’t possibly be part of Canada!