Feeling like a blogger of one's own old blogs..?19 11 25 (6) 25 2 23

who have hit my blog in the last week plus two people one from an Unknown Region, the other from Russia who I believe have each visited before..?

On this the last day of another year of my life when tomorrow I shall begin another year with another birthday. Today is the b-d of a lady who used to be our post mistress and I like to wish her a happy birthday for today is the only day in the year I am only 26 years her senior, for tomorrow age wise I shall of course be 27 years older so you see the number 26 has special significance for me, a numbers kinda guy, mathematics always my best subject in secondary school!

So when I saw the last visitor was someone from Burundi I had to check it out on a map to see where it is situated: my knowledge of Geography not as good as my knowledge of numbers although I did once get a GCE O-level for the study of Geography, after I left secondary school, by way of an extra study subject so I could qualify for University entrance when I should formally top up my chemistry studies: with the three main branches of organic, inorganic and physical chemistry plus a few more of the more exotic branches, like nuclear chemistry plus biochemistry as part of a study of physiology, and also astronomy and its associated chemistry which allows earthlings to draw all manner of conclusions about the chemical nature of the cosmos…

So when I consulted Wikipedia about Burundi the name Lake Tanganyika was said to skirt its southwest border I knew from my former studies where approximately it is situated in the great continent of Africa.

Getting a hit from Egypt, followed later the same day by another hit from Egypt suggesting that in all probability it was the same person re-visiting was gratifying because together with my wife we have visited Egypt for a winter holiday when we stayed in Luxor and when we got to travel south up the River Nile as far as the Aswan Dam, and when we got a thorough introduction to the Egypt of the Pharos, and got to learn that Luxor for example is home to 1/7th of all the world’s stone monuments...

And to get a hit from someone in the Emerald Isle nice, since I only recently discovered that my father was half Irish, with one Grandfather hailing from Dublin and another from County Monaghan, both of whom left Ireland during the potato famine years of the 1840’s and both migrating to England and the City of Manchester where I was born before first migrating north to the town of Bury, where I grew up and got my primary and secondary education, before I too left my home country to migrate to Scandinavia. Though I have visited Ireland twice, each time only to the South or to Eire, we shall now need to visit at least one more time so I can visit the area where my Great Grandfather farmed the land which straddles two of the northern counties in the town of Clonus.


So as the 38th 39th and 40th countries or regions to figure among those peoples already visited welcome aboard, as I hope you can find something of interest to read..?  

a blog for the new people of Ireland, Egypt and Burundi..?19 11 25
As i was telling my grandson yesterday that the gap between the person who wrote this blog a little over 5 years ago grows in duration it appears more as if i have ceased to be the person responsible for the writing of it, which has the effect of my being more detached as the reader...learning from him that he too once used to write a blog on BlogSpot...

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