The joys of modern technology

It fascinates me watching our traffic feed, seeing where our readers are located. It surprises me how many readers we regularly receive, but some of the places I recognise and know the people probably sitting behind that address. Some are family and long time friends from where we live or have lived and worked, some are folks we have met online but over the years are now no less valued friends. Those we met playing backgammon online, which is where Anita and I met so many years ago. Some we have met through a common interest in feeding ourselves and preserving food, a common passion in what many call 'homesteading', even one person I recognise from my brief visits to a quilting forum. There are friends of friends who mostly come to this blog via Facebook, all valued readers and we understand the connection that brings you here.

There are those who have been led here by a google search for a specific topic, I notice that the most popular topic for google searches is the recipe we shared for British pub style pickled onions, I am so glad we were able to share. Some of these one-time visitors have become regular readers, we see them return, or at least we have noticed that a person from that particular city has become a regular reader. To be honest it is often the cities that start the fascination for me. How did we become interesting to someone in Moscow or St Petersberg? What led someone from Pakistan to read about jalapeno heaven, someone from Greece reading about sheep and spring seemed more logical. Many of the places I recognise, many I have even visited but every now and then there is someone from a place I have never heard of and I have to look it up on a map.

Whoever you are and where ever you may be logging in from, we value your visit, if you were searching for something specific we hope we were able to help, and we really are touched by so many people interested in what these two old broads get up to. Please feel free to leave comments, feel free to tell us where you are from or why you visited. Modern technology is truly a wonderful thing!