Squirrel on the fence – we now regularly see two or three at a time. They eat from the trays and go, as the rest of the food is kept in cages.

Yes, not a very imaginative title, but that’s just how I am. I would have refrained from using it but WP is playing up and not sending greetings to people when I try to answer comments. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come and Russian hackers are responsible for the regular problems we now experience with internet services. Or Chinese or Iranian hackers.

Eleven years on WordPress and this is my least productive year apart from the first one, which was only a couple of months.

I’ve always thought that the farm years were the best ones on the blog, with loads of photos, cute animals, a worthwhile occupation and interesting subjects. I was wrong, when I look at the figures. The best year was 2017, the year I was off work. I posted more and had my best ratio of likes to posts. Things were reasonable whilst I was in the shop. 2020 allowed more time for posting but in 2022 my posting started to fall away and my likes ratio went down alarmingly. It was 23 likes per post in 2017, fell to 18 by 2021, and in 2022 fell to 12, despite good posting numbers. I only managed 8.5 likes per post in 2025.

It’s probably just that I’m becoming dull, but I must try to do something about it. Apart from becoming dull (look at the third paragraph of this post for an example), I have been ill and have also written a lot of other stuff and, with a lack of time, I have stopped reading and commenting as much as I used to. Somewhere in all that, there is an answer.

So, in addition to more submissions next year I am going to do try to become a better blogger. I’m not quite sure how to go about that, but can hopefully come up with an idea by tomorrow.

Until then, enjoy the celebrations, or sleep through them if that is your preferred option, and I will see you all next year.