There are 91 at present awaiting approval. Wtf! How am I to know which are real and which are bogus nonsense from bots and other web-crawling pondlife? With Viagra or stadium lighting to sell or looking for an opening for a hack, a virus, a trojan? Or even with nice websites I would enjoy even though they don’t read my blogs?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Safest strategy: just delete all. So if you’re a real person who reads my blogs and wants to make a genuine connection with the content, or with me – and I haven’t posted or responded to your heartfelt comment, I apologise. If you engage with the content I’m more likely to engage with you ok?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To the time wasters: send as much nonsense as you like, it goes straight to the Spam folder. Last time I posted a blog about this ghastly phenomenon I was suddenly overwhelmed with a huge increase in the spam volume. Maybe the bots have a sense of humour?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To my dearly beloved readers: Hi. I hope you are well, certainly better than I am at the moment. Yesterday I had a flying lesson over the handlebars of my bike – my scarf had wound itself around the front wheel and I almost did an Isadora Duncan (if you’re too lazy to google her, she was a very famous dancer in the 20’s killed when her scarf wound itself around a wheel of a sports car) – although flipping up in the air outside Sainsbury’s is just not even remotely romantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The damage was to nose and forehead, which made stunning acquaintance with the sidewalk and bled all over the place. A wonderful New Zealander called Matt I think (works locally. Good chap) checked me out and sent me home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So now I have to go into a school and do a Thingy. With a great blob of scab in the middle of the nose and a bruise on the forehead. “Hey Sir, you’ve got a squashed cockroach on your nose!” “Yeh kiddo, want one?” would not be an appropriate response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ok I’m off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Love you all. Even the spammers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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