Reflections
As a blogger, one develops a unique network of firm supporters, casual supporters and occasional visitors. In turn, one belongs to other bloggers' networks in different capacities. If someone were to represent all of this connectivity in diagrammatic form, the final picture would be hellishly complicated. When I set off blogging nineteen years ago, I had no idea if anyone would even find "Yorkshire Pudding" in the blogging galaxy we occupy. But gradually it started to happen. Visitors came as I visited other blogs and before you knew it my blogposts were not lonesome sailing boats upon a deep, dark ocean but part of a flotilla that seemed to grow. I was not alone. Back in 2005, I had no notion of what my visitors might be like. Would there be a typical profile? Nineteen years later, it seems to me that this blog has attracted generally mature, literate people. Most visitors are over fifty years old and most are white. The majority own their own homes and most live in...