I took a few days off work this week to chaperone Granny Buttons through her drydocking. So it's sheer cussed happenstance that this is the week www.grannybuttons.com is mentioned in the new December Waterways World as 'Website Of The Month'. I like to mention other websites frequently, and praise the ones that do well, and I always link-link-link. But it's a new experience for the attention to come in my direction, and I'm blushing!
I'm not much of a cruising log writer, and where I like to think this blog works best is when I stumble on canal subjects on the web, link to them and comment on them in my own sarky, larky way. So I reckon this week - when I don't have time for my 'Cut Life' links and comments - just happens to be a bad less-good moment for any newcomers to check me out - sorry!
Jim Shead's Clicking On Canals feature has been running for almost five years in WW. He mentioned me a year ago, but only in passing. I'm not sure why Granny Buttons has suddenly been covered again - perhaps he's understood the concept of blogs better, or perhaps I've improved. (No, surely not; I'm as bad as ever!).
Or perhaps he got a nudge from web-savvy new editor Richard Fairhurst, who himself is a blogger (off-duty only) and probably has a beady editorial eye on the new media. Still, whatever drew them to revisit me, thanks for the compliment!
I think mine is the first true blog to be the WWWOTM. Granny Buttons is a website, Jim, but not as we know it.
Thanks for the compliment, Mark. I'm not bashful to acknowledge that my postings are frequent - nearly 1,100 in 28 months.
More frustratingly, I see a yawning gap between what I do and what I mean to do. Lists of links, photo albums, better watching of other news sources on the web - and especially, better proofing and rewriting. Gosh, I love this medium. Not quite as much as I love taking a boat through the English countryside, though.
Posted by: Andrew Denny | Wednesday, 16 November 2005 at 11:22 PM
Completely unnudged - Jim's choice alone!
Posted by: Richard Fairhurst | Wednesday, 16 November 2005 at 01:21 PM
Congratulations on the recognition in Waterways World. Your blog is great and full of very useful information. Thanks for being so frequent with your postings. Good luck, Mark
Posted by: Mark | Tuesday, 15 November 2005 at 10:03 PM