Happy New Year – Stephen Liddell

My Project for 2022

I hop everyone has had a Happy New Year and festive period. I can’t believe this is 2022 and yet I can so clearly remember 1982! The summer of 2022 will see my 10 year anniversary of writing this blog and as I write this there have been 912,000 visitors to my blog which seems… Continue reading My Project for 2022

My 2019 Year in Review

2019 was a busy old year and in keeping with most of the previous 44, not particularly good though far from the worst. I guess that’s why I never celebrate New Year! Two of the highlights were definitely getting to see my first ever MLB Baseball game and even better than that, my beloved Boston… Continue reading My 2019 Year in Review

New Year Musings and Thankyous

I hope you’ve all had a Happy New Year and Christmas period for those who celebrate it. Did anyone do any First Footing at New Year? This is the beginning of my 7th year of blogging and I’ve written before on how I’m not much of a believer of New Year Resolutions or indeed New… Continue reading New Year Musings and Thankyous

First Footing at New Year

First Footing is still very much alive in modern Britain. A survey shows that nearly a third of people in Britain say that First Footing continues to play a part in their New Year celebrations. The greatest number of followers of the First Footing tradition (when the first person over your threshold after the clock… Continue reading First Footing at New Year

Farewell 2017, hello 2018!

Well this is my final blog post for the year. It’s been a busy old year with over 116,000 readers at the time of writing so thank-you everyone for giving me reasons to carry on blogging and sharing my questionable wisdom, hidden areas of history and occasional tourist related posts. 2017 saw the release of… Continue reading Farewell 2017, hello 2018!

2015 blog review in facts and figures

Thank-you to everyone who continues to read my blog. Back in 2012 I received only 6,000 visits albeit in just 6 months. 2013 saw the beginning of an exponential rise to 45,000 visits. Incredibly 2014 almost doubled this total with 83,000 visits to my blog. 2015 had me with just one blogging goal left, could… Continue reading 2015 blog review in facts and figures

It’s that time again… 2014 blogging in review

This is now my third end of year report having been on WordPress for almost 2.5 years. It’s been a long road, getting from there to here. Thank-you to everyone who reads my blog whether regularly or infrequently or those who simply visit once from a wild search on Google. It seems I have the… Continue reading It’s that time again… 2014 blogging in review

My 2013 blog year in review

Well it has been a busy blogging year and I’d just like to thank everyone who spares me a minute of their time to see what I am up to. It’s been a pretty horrid year away from blogging with the loss of my mother and my job, albeit I hated my job and had… Continue reading My 2013 blog year in review