And so the New Year has passed uneventfully, apart from the small matter of 3,000 screaming teenagers swaggering and jostling their way to the park next to our rented holiday apartment in the kiwi seaside town of Whangamata. A thronged mass of pimpled, drainpipe wearing youth advanced to the sea front, tonsorial spikes a flutter, as they texted and facebooked their New Year salutations to all and sundry. The glow of their cell phones lit up the night sky like the annual convention of NZ glowworm fanciers.
Whangamata, beachside surf town of 5,000 people, swells to 30.000 over Christmas and the New Year, with hordes of surfers, beach types, fishers, and families looking for a traditional NZ holiday:
For those of you with no knowledge of Maori pronunciation allow me to explain the shibboleth:
Whangamata, (which means in English: whanga = bay, mata = obsidian stones) does not end with the rhyming sound matter, but rather ma tar, and so locals know the towns as Fong-a-matar.
Anyway, thyme is of the essence, as they say in herb flavour enhancing factories...
A swift review of a couple of blog stats for last year:
I managed 59 posts in all, which as all you mathematical genii will instantly know equates to....
(I'm waiting for a mathematical genius to tell me)
1.13 posts per week, or just under 5 posts a month.
There have been over 15,000 visitors to the site, with the majority hailing from The UK, the USA and then Russia.
The most popular post was Breakfast at Tiffanys, closely followed by Ra Ra Rasputin.
Clearly Boney M gets googled frequently, as does Rasputin, but I suspect the main reason for it's popularity lies with the inclusion of Russian billionaire and Chelsea FC boss, Roman Abramovich blatantly swearing in cyrillic, which obviously pleases the dry Russian sense of humour.
Whangamata, beachside surf town of 5,000 people, swells to 30.000 over Christmas and the New Year, with hordes of surfers, beach types, fishers, and families looking for a traditional NZ holiday:
For those of you with no knowledge of Maori pronunciation allow me to explain the shibboleth:
Whangamata, (which means in English: whanga = bay, mata = obsidian stones) does not end with the rhyming sound matter, but rather ma tar, and so locals know the towns as Fong-a-matar.
Anyway, thyme is of the essence, as they say in herb flavour enhancing factories...
A swift review of a couple of blog stats for last year:
I managed 59 posts in all, which as all you mathematical genii will instantly know equates to....
(I'm waiting for a mathematical genius to tell me)
1.13 posts per week, or just under 5 posts a month.
There have been over 15,000 visitors to the site, with the majority hailing from The UK, the USA and then Russia.
The most popular post was Breakfast at Tiffanys, closely followed by Ra Ra Rasputin.
Clearly Boney M gets googled frequently, as does Rasputin, but I suspect the main reason for it's popularity lies with the inclusion of Russian billionaire and Chelsea FC boss, Roman Abramovich blatantly swearing in cyrillic, which obviously pleases the dry Russian sense of humour.
Yes my world is a silly place, full of frolics and general silliness, so please drop in from time to time to check my updates. This year I hope to branch out to Google+ and perhaps tumblr to enable easier posting and updates, but we shall see.
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Happy New Year.
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