One of the features you can access when you've set up a blog is general statistics of who is looking at it. For example, there are pageviews - which give you a graph of views per day/week/month - reminding me of the spikes on a medical chart; you can look at traffic sources - listed under referring URLs or referring sites [I can't fathom this one]; but my favourite is audience. This week, the UK is showing as the third largest readership(!) after Russia and Canada, with one each from Australia, France, Cambodia, Netherlands and Serbia.
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(hellos to the readers from Cambodia and Serbia - welcome all)
Here's another number; for 3 days and nights last week, this was the temperature in my room; that's how hot it has been, despite my ceiling fans whirring at their highest rpm!
Last Friday night found me in Southam Hall, in Ottawa's National Arts Centre. I had been given free tickets to see Angela Hewitt who was playing two Mozart piano concertos (as well as some excerpts from Pelleas et Melisande by Sibelius). The performance was being recorded by Hyperion Records. She was entrancing to watch, just technically, apart from anything else. The next morning, I spent half an hour reading some of her fascinating blog, giving a glimpse into the unusual world of a world-famous concert pianist. Wonderful. And I had to put a cardi on in the cool of the auditorium!
