It is interesting that the pattern of bloggees is changing (as usual) when Huttonian moves from the Merse to foreign parts like Norn Iron. My site meter which records the ‘hits’ on the blog allows a form of identification in some cases allowing you to make educated guesses as to who has been looking at the rant. Obviously Merse faithfuls have little interest in events across the water (although one regular is apparently riveted by the golf!) and Norn Iron being such a specialised taste (for non-golfers anyhow) who is to blame them. The level of hits is however reasonably constant with a number of new ‘viewers’ from the US and Oz/New Zealand. More golfers perhaps who have found the website via ‘ The Blog of Blogs’ or Blogarama which is a sort of ranters directory:
http://www.blogarama.com/index.php?show=new_blogs&sr=10&pp=10&cp=2On the subject of Norn Iron-and that will be the main topic until 11 June (but not always golf) a regular bloggee told me of some graffiti which appeared in Unionist areas at the time of the Pope’s death. One read ‘Three Down and our Queen goes on’ A traditional anti Catholic slogan sprayed around for years was ‘Kick the Pope’ but a recent variation, just after the death, was ‘Kick the Pope(What do we do now?) However my favourite remains the huge graffito* on a Ballymena wall : ‘NO POPE HERE’ under which in smaller letters some one had written 'Lucky Old Pope' Amen to that
* Pedant-blog ed.
