Blog birthdays

Apologies to both Julia and Grandpa if I’ve missed some important blogs out but on the first birthday, today, of the new Unherdables, methought it might be interesting to go exploring the opening dates of various blogs (still extant) associated mainly with Julia and me.

Jul 26, 2006 Nourishing Obscurity first official post (blog now stolen)

Apr 29, 2008 Ambush Predator opens (Julia)

Jun 11, 2011 Orphans of Liberty opens (both old Blgr and new WordPress)

Jan 1, 2014 Nourishing Obscurity WordPress opens as my centre of archives

Oct 31, 2019 Julia starts using WP version of Orphans (blog bday?)

Aug 31, 2022 Jstack open for business

Aug 11, 2024: Unherdable Cats WP opens

Sep 7, 2024: Nourishing Unherdables (HQ) opens

Also of note:

The old Orphans on ggl blgr with Longrider etc. we might call 11.06.11 to 31.10.19.

There’s one other blog … NOUK, hosted by Chuckles, which had a brief run until his death some years back now. It was based on the format of the original NO.

All right, let’s now focus on this new Orphans itself (built 2011, became a going blog Oct 31st, 2019. Different people have different opinions on it and for Julia (the boss) and me (keeper of the archives), it is, by definition, our second blog, also noting we both have X and Gab, plus various other meanderings.

What thinkest I (Julia might have an opinion, maybe not)?  We’ve gone through phases for sure but especially of late, until I started on the “moniker biz” anyway, Orphans was getting a modestly ok 300 visitors but what shocked me were a few times we were up in the 1.5K region … it wildly fluctuates.

Most viewed individual posts were:

Let the last words be from The Boss: