Just a quick note to anyone expecting a post on a serious note about Renewable Energy, – sorry, you have been misled by a flippant title.
Sorry, too, about yesterday’s post, it got a bit close to midnight and I decided to take a shortcut and use a poem to fill the gap. However, do not fear, the lapse into culture is only temporary and I am now back to carping about the modern world.
I’ve just been reading about influencers. There are millions of them, they are an important marketing resource for big brands, they sometimes lack credibility (sometimes?) and although the article was written using English words, it made no sense. I am left with a feeling of doom after looking at the future of he human race.
I used to worry, when I started blogging, that I had nothing to say and was being very arrogant in thinking that people would be interested in reading about my life. This has been a consistent thought as I am still amazed that anyone stops by regularly to read.
I’m even more amazed that people have millions of followers based on content that I don’t remember. Some do comedy sketches, one gave a way a million dollars, and I can’t actually remember what the rest of them wrote about. I’m fairly sure that it is, like my trivia, easily forgettable, and in the absence of paper copies won’t even do for tomorrow’s chip wrappings or budgie cages.
The other thing I was thinking about was renewable energy. There is surprisingly little work being done on generating power by forking influencers into a furnace. In fact, since the Middle Ages, there has been little work done at all on sinners, forks and furnaces.
Clare Pooley did a good post on the Wenhaston Doom. Anyone who can write a blog about flowers growing out of a wall, manacles and Church architecture should be encouraged. Why not visit her blog and tell her you’d like to see more of her writing? No pressure Clare . . .
Pictures are of various Dooms from around the country – we really are very lucky to have so much history all around us.
“There is surprisingly little work being done on generating power by forking influencers into a furnace.” Priceless! Thanks for that.
My pleasure. You brightened my day with the Crocodile Dundee quote, so it is the least I could do.
Clare is one of my favorites. Thank you for mentioning her.
Voles are currently influencing where I may try to plant tulip bulbs again having failed miserably over the years due to predation. I have one patch of purple tulips (I tend to forget about them until I see them each spring) that has been steadfastly coming back yearly as it is planted in gravel up against the cement foundation of the garage. Apparently, this has discouraged voles from digging them up and eating them. I thought for sure this year they would be gone with all the vole tunnels about, but the tulips did come back again. Now that I have said that, I am doomed. 🙂 I have heard vole populations are surging here this year, and found this article on it.
https://capitalpress.com/2026/03/19/martial-artist-turns-to-fighting-surging-vole-populations/
Interesting article, interesting man and the germ of a plot for an anarchic film – “underground explosives, lethal robots and oversized vacuums” are too good to pass up on.
We have tried wire mesh and grated soap to deter squirrels. he soap does not work. The mesh works on pots but I never tried it on beds. Fortunately we don’t have a big problem with them lifting bulbs.
I thought you would find the article interesting… 🙂
🙂 It makes me wish I’d become a scientist. I used to think it was boring, but i seems I was wrong.
Science presents endless questions for the inquiring mind. 🙂
When my parents tried to persuade me to be a scientist they knew little of it and told me I could work in a laboratory doing loads of boring cosmetic and food type stuff. I wanted to work outdoors. If only I’d known . . .
Thank you for explaining what an influencer is
“Explaining” might be giving me credit for more objectivity than I showed. 🙂
When I first started blogging, on the first day and the first week I was getting 0ver a thousand hits and no comments so I realized it didn’t make sense. The I moved to WordPress and found that they hosted Blogger, but at least they were more realistic. Now I am pleased if I get 7 or 8 comments, and I get a bit down in the dumps if I get only 3.
Sounds very similar to my figures. However – “quality not quantity” as they say.
Agree wholeheartedly
Since I theoretically have over 14,000 followers for my blog according to the WordPress and 99% of them don’t ever read it, also according to WordPress, I am extremely sceptical about the number of followers attributed to influencers. Just recently I have had a spike in the number of visitors but not in the number of readers so I suspect robots are at work.
I support your call for more Clare Pooley content creation.
I’m not sure how many followers I have n theory, but I think it comes down to a dozen regulars. Or even fewer. 🙂
When I checked, a few years ago, most of my “followers” had visited once.
I had a look at mine and found that 0% visits seemed to be the norm. I am thankful for the few subscribers who do actually read the blog and keep me motivated to try to do something mildly interesting every day (weather permitting).
It seems to be working so far. 🙂
You are so kind Simon, thank you. I am attempting to get my act together and failing miserably. So much to do……
Rome wasn’t built in a day. 🙂 Just remember you have an audience who want to hear from you. Churches, family trivia, duckponds . . .
I’m not sure which of the three words drew me in. Renewables, possibly, it didn’t sound like a subject you would normally write about, so I was curious. I was impressed with your furnace idea, but not sure how much CO2 an influencer would emit into the atmosphere? But my TikTok investigations, so far, do confirm the theory. You shouldn’t be amazed at people stopping by, your blogs are always a treat. In all the madness it’s comforting to read some normality. If you can call it that 😂Oh! and I did enjoy Clare’s post.
Thank you, Charlie. 🙂
He’s a good man, despite appearances. And a published novelist.
That’s good to hear, she’s a good blogger who needs a nudge. 🙂 I am surprisingly normal to look at, jus a shuffling white-haired loon. Nobody knows the homicidal thoughts I harbour . . . 🙂