Karen i Skivholme skriver på sin blog, at man kun fejrer de runde fødselsdage stort. Det er nu ikke helt sandt, men jeg plejer mestendels at glemme at fejre min blogs fødselsdag, og det er jo knap så interessant at skrive om at i forgårs, for en uge eller længere siden, fyldte bloggen min 5, 6 eller 8 år.
I dag fylder bloggen så hele 10 år. Og jeg er nået til indlæg nummer 1.765 - det er ikke noget særlig tal, men det er det, jeg nåede på 10 år. Det er faktisk næsten et indlæg hver anden dag. Det er da helt godt gået. Bloggens 10 år
De fleste gange, det har været den 30. januar, har jeg faktisk skrevet på bloggen, bare ikke om bloggens fødselsdag, men om alt muligt andet.
- Sidste år var jeg midt i en længere historie om Susan i Sverige.
- I 2020 handlede indlægget om en anden ting, der også fylder 10 i år: European Reading Challenge, som jeg ikke har haft det store held med at deltage i. Det års ikke-fødselsdagsindlæg er en anmeldelse af en bog til denne udfordring. Og så blev det ikke til mere det år. Jeg var måske lidt træt efter at have skrevet hele den lange historie om Mary, Allan og verdens undergang.
- I 2019 huskede jeg bloggens 7 års fødselsdag. Det er den eneste blogfødselsdag, jeg faktisk har fejret, og den faldt oven i købet sammen med mit indlæg nummer 1.000. Indlæg nummer 999 er fra tidligere samme dag, et Word for Wednesday-indlæg, nok en gang om Susan.
- I 2018 skrev jeg ikke den dag.
- I 2017 var jeg midt i en Madudfordring, i protest mod den megen halvfabrikata i madlavningen, og fortalte om at lave okonomiyaki. Det spiser vi stadig med stor appetit ind i mellem. Også i 2017 var der et lidt syret indlæg om de Negative superhelte.
- i 2016 fortalte jeg om Haveuglen til Ugens Ugle. Det var det 4. af kun 10 i en serie, jeg havde tænkt skulle køre hele året.
- i 2015 og 2014 skrev jeg ikke på bloggen den dag.
- I 2013 strikkede jeg sokker til Piraten, og havde lært at starte fra tæerne.
- I 2012 startede bloggen bare med et indlæg om at bage sit eget brød. Det er ikke fordi jeg har haft en anden blog før eller noget andet. Jeg startede bare midt i det hele, som en moderne roman 🙂.
Der er ikke det store nye i noget af det her, jeg strikker, skriver, bager og dyrker haven endnu. Hvis der mangler noget i dette ridt gennem ti år med bloggen, så er det et digt! Men heldigvis er det mandag i morgen - Poetry Monday, så bloggens første indlæg i dens 11. år bliver et digt!
10 år andre steder ...
Rejsen gennem de gamle blogindlæg har også gjort mig lidt vemodig Der er så mange bloggere, der ikke længere skriver på deres blog (de fleste lever og poster på Instagram eller Facebook), eller som har lavet deres blog til et udstillingsvindue for deres forretning, hvad end de nu sælger.
Nu vi er i den triste ende, så er det også 10 år siden at det sidste nummer af Urban udkom, og dermed 10 år siden den sidste avisstribe med Nemi på dansk.
Der er et par bloggere, der også har skrevet i en ti års tid og som har påbegyndt deres blogliv på denne tid af året. Jeg kunne have sagt ingen nævnt, ingen glemt, men jeg har nu lyst til at nævne et par stykker:
Jeg har jo allerede fortalt at Karen i Skivholme holdt ti års blogfødselsdag, og hvis du er vild med muntre, eftertænksomme eller flotte (have)historier, så behøver du ikke at lede længere. Karen leverer varen.
Pias blog Colour Cottage fylder også 10 år i år - i juni. Det er spændende læsning, hvis man som jeg er bidt af uld, planter, farver ... Pia har det.
Om en uges tid har Elephant's Child skrevet i 11 år. Hun synes ikke at fejre den slags overhovedet, men hvis der lige mangler en kænguru eller en flot blomst i dit liv, ja så må du bare derhen.
I det hele taget er der heldigvis mange gode og interessante blogs i verden. Mine bloglister rummer et lille udsnit, læs bare løs! Og så håber jeg da at blive ved med at blogge om stort og småt i Ugleboet og i den store verden mange år endnu!
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Karen i Skivholme writes on her blog that she only celebrates the round birthdays in a big way. That's not entirely true for me, but I usually forget to celebrate my blog's birthday, and it's hardly interesting to write that the day before yesterday, a week or more ago, my blog turned 5, 6 or 8 years.
Today, the blog turns 10 years. And this is blog post number 1,765 - not a very special number, but that's what I reached in 10 years. That's actually almost a post every two days. That's pretty good.
The blog's 10 years
Most of past January 30's, I've actually written on the blog, just not about the blog's birthday, but almost everything else.
- Last year I was in the middle of a longer story about Susan in Sweden.
- In 2020, the post was about another thing that turns 10 this year: The European Reading Challenge, which I haven't had much luck participating in. That year's non-birthday post is a review of a book for the challenge. And that's all for that year. I was perhaps a little tired after writing the whole long story of Mary, Allan and the End of the World.
- In 2019, I remembered the blog's 7th birthday. It's the only blog birthday I've actually celebrated, and it even coincided with my post number 1,000. Post number 999 is from earlier that day, a Word for Wednesday post, once again a story about Susan.
- In 2018, I didn't post that day.
- In 2017, I was in the middle of a Food Challenge protesting against the increasing amount of convenience food used in cooking, and talking about making okonomiyaki. We still eat it with great appetite now and then. Also in 2017, there was a slightly crazy post about the Negative Superheroes.
- In 2016, I talked about the GardenOwl for Owl of the Week. It was the 4th of only 10 in a series I intended to run all year.
- In 2015 and 2014, I didn't post on the blog that day.
- In 2013, I was knitting socks for the Pirate, and had learned to start from the toes.
- In 2012, the blog just started with a post about baking your own bread. It's not like I had another blog before or anything. I just started in the middle of everything, like a modern novel 🙂 .
There's not much new in any of this, I'm still knitting, writing, gardening and baking. If anything is missing from this ride through ten years of blogging, it's a poem! But luckily tomorrow is Monday - Poetry Monday, so the blog's first post in its 11th year will be a poem!
10 years elsewhere ...
The journey through the old blog posts has also made me a little sad. There are so many bloggers who no longer write on their blog (most live and post on Instagram or Facebook), or who have turned their blog into a showcase for their business, whatever it is they sell.
While we're on the sad end, it's also been 10 years since the last issue of Urban came out, and thus 10 years since the last newspaper strip featuring Nemi in Danish.
There are a few bloggers who have also been writing for a decade and who have started their blogging lives at this time of year. I could have said none mentioned, none forgotten, but I now feel like mentioning a few:
I've already told you that Karen i Skivholme celebrated her tenth blogiversary, and if you like cheerful, thoughtful or beautiful (garden) stories, then look no further. Karen delivers.
Pia's blog Colour Cottage also turns 10 this year - in June. It's a fascinating read if you're into wool, plants, colour, like me ... Pia's got it.
In a week's time, Elephant's Child will have been writing for 11 years. She doesn't seem to celebrate that sort of thing at all, but if you're missing a kangaroo or a pretty flower in your life, well, you'll just have to go there.
On the whole, there are still many good and interesting blogs around in the blogging world. My blog lists contain a small selection, so please read on! And I hope to keep blogging about the big and small things in the Owlery and the world at large for years to come!
Congrats for the tenth anniversary, Charlotte! This reminds me that I have been blogging since April 2008 - and I never remembered the 10th anniversary. Will try to remember the 20th :)
SvarSletThank you. Maybe you should celebrate your 15th anniversary next year ;)
SletThank you. No, I tend to let birthdays/anniversaries pass me by. Though the 30th was my mother's birthday. I did think of her yesterday. Often, with regret.
SvarSletI never - or only seldom - let a chance to celebrate and bake a cake pass me by.
SletSome people's birthdays can make you sad, I understand, but my blog's 'birthday' is a happy occasion, and I'm happy to have remembered this time around. I'm terrible at forgetting, and have even forgotten my own birthday more than once ;)
Of course your blog birthday is a happy occasion - and my apologies for not making that clear in my first response.
SletNo, I did see this. Sorry for being clumsy. I mean more like .. well there's sad occasions and everydays enough as it is. Let's celebrate what we can, even a blogoversary ;) I only cuss at my bad memory, making be forget so many occasions for cake :D
SletHooray for ten years! My hope is you will continue for many, many more.
SvarSletThank you - you're ahead of me ;) And I wish the same for you!
SletCongratulations on ten years. In may my blog will be 12, but I don't write or post as much as I used to. The "River" ran dry.
SvarSletRivers ebb and flow, and I'm enjoying your continuing story. I'm wishing you a long life and lots of new water.
SvarSletCongrats on 10 years. I actually thought you had blogged longer than that but that's probably me. I find everything seems to be so long ago and far from my memory.
SvarSletIt's sad for me too to see some of my favorite bloggers are on social media but aren't blogging. I guess blogging is just not as popluar as before but I still blog because I can't stand social media.
I hope you'll keep blogging.
Have a lovely day.
10 year IS a long time. The Owlets, that were children, when I began blogging are now big, strong owls, bigger than MotherOwl all of them.
SletI feel so sad when I see the blogrolls with posts 3, 4 even 7 years ago, and just stopping most of them. Not a word for goodbye. I am going to keep on blogging. Or as the very least write a "goodbye everybody" note if I ever stop.
I am not much of a SoMe person either. I have some groups on Facebook for crafts and such that I follow, but I go directly there and do not look at my news feed (bad customer here ;) ).