And it's Still Here.

In order to spend some time with ones husband on Easter Sunday, one has to go the distance. Finn and I went up to see him as Finn is learning to juggle and keeps looking at wee video clips on the internet which is making my internet gadget smoke and go over budget, so I thought I would double up some quality time with Spook and get some free juggling advice at the same time. Finn and I were arguing over who had farted when we realised it was just that we had arrived! Spook had the poo works going full pelt. He was pretty busy, so Finn occupied himself at the computer and I sat on his sun lounger reading the paper. I always buy the ODT (Otago DAily News), because I live there and it has a wee regions bit which often features our adopted town. It has a scary opinion page that makes my hair stand on end, but I didn't really think of changing papers as there is little choice. This was The Southland Times and what an improvement. Not only an opinion page with some opinions I have half a chance of relating too, but a features page with 2 references to blogging!!! The first was by a woman who had Aitken in her double-barrelled name (double barrels very common over here). She said that she had no patience for Twitter - an online comment blog where you are limited to 140 characters, but that it did save her from the terrible "blogs out there offering up extraordinarily boring detailed accounts of extraordinarily ordinary lives. Yawn, No offence." Yikes - non taken! I felt there was some connection here as she also did a review of Singstars Queen for PlayStation. Even Spook would be drawn in to that singstar offering. Ms Allison-Aitken thought Singstars ABBA edition couldn't be topped until she saw this one. And the connection here is that I did ask Spook a few months ago, if he thought someone could make a story out of all Freddies songs the way Mamma Mia did with ABBA. (I could work on this while cleaning toilets - if I actually knew the words to his songs instead of just the tunes - ipod!!!)

And the other article in the paper about blogging was about an ex editor of Cosmo who had a blog called mamamia.com.au. She attracts 300,00 hits per month. She talks about current affairs, fashion, celebrities and relationships. I do that too, don't I???? And this other one by an ex-Mormon dooce.com gets more than 4 million hits per month. Think of all the clicks on the adverts!! fatmumslim.com.au gets between 300 and 400 a day. I'm going to look them up now and see what it's all about.

Spook finally got a free moment to chat with me. I had moved over to the retaining wall which has big stones in caging and a nice wee shelved bit to sit on so that I could look up at the skydivers.

"That caging's infested with rats", he said - romantically.