62. 10,000 page views and Jack Blandiver is still kicking his heels, plus top twenty blogs updated to 15th March 2014



Jack Blandiver (see blog 5)

Today (5th August 3013) I hit 10,000 page views for my blog. My largest number of readers have been in the U.S.A. with over 3000 page views, followed by NZ (over 2000) and the UK (over 1000); also page views from seventy-three* other countries:  Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, China, Columbia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Ethiopia, France, French Polynesia, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania, Macau, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Papua and New Guinea, Paraguay, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela and Vietnam.

[Update, 18th March 2014 - now over 17,000 page views; *as at 19th April 2014]

Here are my top twenty blogs in page view order updated at 18th March 2014.

1.  Rupert Brooke and Taatamata (blog 47, June 2012)

2.  In London, In Love (blog 19, December 2011)

Photo by Trevor Watson, Portfolio Gallery

 3. 

'Incicly Pedaary'; Boarding School and a Demon of Arabian Mythology (blog 48, June 2012)



Afrit

4.

 Trips to National Women's Hospital, Piha and Auckland's West Coast (blog 31, February 2012)



5.  "Why Me? The History and Mystery of My Bronchiectasis (blog 21, December 2011)





Painting by Jacqueline Morreau

6.  Between Mark Twain and Zadie Smith; My Gap Years [2] (blog 58, May 2013)



7.  Beneath a Cathedral of Commerce: Harrods of Knightsbridge and My Gap Years 1958-1960 (blog 60, May 2013)

8.  Love, Death and Letters from My Mother's Hut (blog 30, February 2012).


9.  Of Primary School, Pets and Pauper Lunatics (blog 33, February 2012)


10.  Wall's Ice Cream: My 1958-1960 Gap Years 3 (blog 59, May 2013)



11.  One Wedding, Two Funerals, Three Letters, Thirty Years (blog 37, March 2012)



Victoria Park, Hackney, Winter 1981

12.  Sophie's Fan (blog 14, December 2011)

 

 13.  Holly Pandora's Big Day Out (blog 29, January 2012)


14.  Composition with The Devil's Tools  (blog 10, November 2011)


15.  Christmas Greetings and Reflections (blog 18, December 2011)

Orewa Beach

16.  "And there the antic sits.." (blog 36, February 2012)



William Blake Etching

17.  Cross Cultural Sexual Personae: Eros Unbound (blog 50, June 2012)


"Eros", Picadilly Circus

18.  "In the Name of God and of Profit"  (blog 11, November 2011)



Statue of Francesco di Marco Datini, Prato, Italy. Photo by Nigel Haworth

  

19.  Here Comes the Can-Can (blog 38, March 2012)

 

20.  The Joys and Tears of Love and Passion (blog 22, January 2012)