Springwatch – This blog is blooming…

As my blog comes towards it’s first anniversary a quick glance over the site’s statistics shows that it’s moving in bigger circles, and February was a particularly busy month.

Firstly there was a noteworthy appraisal over at Boris Johnson’s blog. A compliment from a fellow Richard Thompson fan Chris Morriss brought me a new readership in the form of fellow watchers of everybody’s favourite floppy-haired Tory MP. I’m particularly fond of my comment on that post – they should bring back The Huddlines just so I can have my line about the Bishop of Southwark used again.

Keeping up the parliamentary theme, I caught a few readers from Harriet Harman’s blog post on Hilary Clinton. This was quite surprising considering my own critique on the Labour MP’s decision to start up a blog. Still, if that’s how you came by my blog, then welcome.

Away from the movings of Westminster, some satisfaction was taken from finally getting a comment published on the blog of one of the TopGear guys. Hot on the heels of my post about people called Bill and Bob working in sheds in Yorkshire to save the world with their new-fangled inventions, TopGear tried to succeed where many have failed and launch a shuttle into space. Still, hats off to James May, a fellow music graduate, for trying. Sadly in the form of a Reliant Robin, but I’m sure Virgin Galactic were watching and taking notes with a pencil and pen in their hands.

Finally, I think I’ve saved the best til last. I spend a lot of time reading the blogs of Guardian writers, some of which are linked to over there on the right, but it appears in a roundabout way I sort of supplied some content for the readers of the Media Guardian. Had I have known as I was merrily tapping away during the closing minutes of Blair: The Inside Story on BBC2 that it was going to be the opening link in a review of that night’s television by Nancy Banks-Smith (scroll down to the orange link under the picture) on the Guardian’s TV blog I’d probably have spent a few extra minutes on the post. Still, I’m sure that article wasn’t the only reason people found themselves reading that post. It also appears quite a lot of people found ths site by searching for “his tonyness” on Google – am I becoming some kind of expert on Tony? I’ve been trying to think of possible PHD topics lately…