please empty your brain below
I am soooo excited to be able to offer you this WONDERFUL new opportunity!!! Yes, I am talking about KITTENS.COM, the new and exciting KITTENS website. All you have to do is log on and make nice comments about KITTENS and post a picture every day, and you get ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in return!!!!!! We are so looking forward to you coming on board with us on this exciting new venture!!!
I am also pleased to note that this is the first comment on this post!!!!!!! Woot!!
It's slightly depressing.
MY email out of the blue to you last week was merely sycophantic and in no way promotional. (Darn, I didn't even think about being promotional. I guess I could offer up to 5 pounds if someone could help me find a flat starting in October....)
Actually, I had never ever heard of your blog before I found it while doing a Yahoo search on Betjeman's "Metroland" (and then I sent you my note of appreciation), but in the few days since that time, I've spent several hours here rhapsodizing about so many places that are in my heart's memory (I'm schmaltzy that way) and, naturally, I've suddenly seen your blog mentioned ALL over the place on the internet -- in Time Out's list of best London blogs, cross-linked with all sorts of other blogs, etc. etc.
So I've algebra'd along with your bus rides, trivia'd along with your tube weeks, tramped your trails and Roman roads, downloaded 4 of your Flickr photos, run aground at lots of dead links, immersed myself in a brace of alternative tube maps (nerdy joy), ventured onwards to some of your recommendations for other folks' blogs, chuckled along with some of your jokes, groaned along with some of your Big Brother and other popular culture dispatches (not up my street), and generally had a look at your first year of entries (but finally stopped because your output that year was unexpectedly generous and I finally realized that most of the historical and nerdy Londony stuff - what is my cup of tea - must have begun *after* your first year or two) and then I jumped over to the highlights of your London subset site for quicker hits of delight.
One thing that occurred to me this week while immersing myself in London/UK blogs is that the "expat" sort of bloggers and the "native" sort of bloggers about the UK have almost no connection or cross-linkages, even though they are often writing from the same areas, talking about the same things. I guess the intended audiences are different. Since I was both an expat and a decade-long resident of London, I can see from both perspectives (am more curmudgeonly comfortable with the natives' view, though).
-the daintily alighting (never clambering) cm
Sorry it appears email addresses are not linked from here in the same way as before.
Pretty sure I know exactly who that cheapo hotel is, because I'm arriving in London on Monday and tried to book with them. Because originally, they were meant to be opening last week. And then, well, nothing. Opening dates kept being put back a number of times, then booking in advance at all was cancelled.
I've got a fiver on them *not* opening on the 30th.
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