Thursday, June 7, 2007
Thursday bloghop #16
1. While trolling several different blogs and reading comments and clicking on some commenters' homepages, I chanced upon The Desert Glows Green which is actually physically green (!) and pleasantly interesting. This guy has clear and sometimes quirky reactions to things that often seem to focus on the point really well. In a discussion on his post entitled All or Nothing, for example, he pointed out that it's probably a bad idea to feel allegiance to a political candidate on the basis of one issue or even two, better to support someone whose outlook is closest to one's own. Really good point which I have recently written on myself (here) because of the current grumblings. Loved TDGG's post on Winston Churchill - I do always appreciate it when someone talks about the present with echoes of the past. And his Mother's Day Fun post is a good laugh. And I love his collection of art sites to visit. Another good place to visit.
2. Cute blog called Rain on My Tirade. Nice title. Wish I'd thought of it! The blog, however, is not very tirade-y. It's basically a stroll through events and thoughts that Kelley (the proprietor) finds interesting. Neat photos, too. She's not all bland and simple, though, witness for example her post entitled A rock for Atlas to lift and a world for me to discover (the title is never made clear). I do have two complaints: one, the link to her "main" page doesn't work, which makes it hard for a visiting hopper like myself, and two, she doesn't post nearly often enough. I want more!!
3. A periwinkle background graces julia {here be hippogriffs}. I love periwinkle so I didn't dismiss the blog as all pregnancy and cute hubby stories which is what it appears to be at first (and about which I am not usually smitten). Turns out better than that by far. Well written, for one thing. She's very very popular, for another, at least if one judges by the numbers of comments on each post (nearly always in the 80/90 vicinity). She has a son and a husband and gestating twins. She's a stitch.
4. Throwing my own rule to the wind, partly because julia doesn't display any links from which to hop along, I'm going to include Reading the Signs which I found via a comment at John Baker's. Its self-description sounds a bit dreary but it isn't at all, which shouldn't surprise me since she lives near a British forest and writes and reads John Baker. There's more medical stuff than interests me on the whole, but everything else is simply marvelous. Tea, scenery, photos (the ones from Mull and from Iona a couple of weeks ago are just fantastic!), traveling to London and Scotland, writing competitions, humor (humour to her, of course) and lots of other stuff. Terrific.
2. Cute blog called Rain on My Tirade. Nice title. Wish I'd thought of it! The blog, however, is not very tirade-y. It's basically a stroll through events and thoughts that Kelley (the proprietor) finds interesting. Neat photos, too. She's not all bland and simple, though, witness for example her post entitled A rock for Atlas to lift and a world for me to discover (the title is never made clear). I do have two complaints: one, the link to her "main" page doesn't work, which makes it hard for a visiting hopper like myself, and two, she doesn't post nearly often enough. I want more!!
3. A periwinkle background graces julia {here be hippogriffs}. I love periwinkle so I didn't dismiss the blog as all pregnancy and cute hubby stories which is what it appears to be at first (and about which I am not usually smitten). Turns out better than that by far. Well written, for one thing. She's very very popular, for another, at least if one judges by the numbers of comments on each post (nearly always in the 80/90 vicinity). She has a son and a husband and gestating twins. She's a stitch.
4. Throwing my own rule to the wind, partly because julia doesn't display any links from which to hop along, I'm going to include Reading the Signs which I found via a comment at John Baker's. Its self-description sounds a bit dreary but it isn't at all, which shouldn't surprise me since she lives near a British forest and writes and reads John Baker. There's more medical stuff than interests me on the whole, but everything else is simply marvelous. Tea, scenery, photos (the ones from Mull and from Iona a couple of weeks ago are just fantastic!), traveling to London and Scotland, writing competitions, humor (humour to her, of course) and lots of other stuff. Terrific.
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