Monday 17 November 2014

Six Years Later ...

Today is the sixth anniversary of the evening when your humble host first asked "is this thing on" and began publishing what one early haughty detractor - to my great delight - once described as 'tabloid guff'.

Since that time in 2008, there have been 2,933 articles published here attracting 24,240 comments and 1,979,852 page views according to Sitemeter (or 2,909,702 if Google Analytics is to be believed!). Despite having to devote increasingly more time to my business - and subsequently less time on here - average daily page views are encouragingly up 5% on this time last year and April 2014 was the second most visited month in the history of the place.

Today is also noteworthy for me because I've just submitted a 21 page 11,000 word Puddlecote Inc tender submission for a potential £6 million of business over the next five years which has frazzled me for the past fortnight. This will, I hope, go some way to explaining the lack of content here recently. It is only a brief respite though, before I begin to tackle another hefty tender bid which will almost certainly lead to a few more article-free days in the next week or so.

Considering the above, and since today is also the start of Alcohol Awareness Week, I am very aware that a generous number of sherberts with a good friend of mine are definitely in order tonight.

Many thanks to all of the more than quarter of a million unique visitors who have passed this way since 2008, I shall raise a glass in your honour this evening, to be sure.


16 comments:

Zaphod said...

Keep up the good work, DP! :-)
(And the other good work too, the stuff that pays the bills.)

John M said...

Congratulations on the milestone. I have enjoyed reading for a number of years now - keep it going if you can.

Longrider said...

Congrats. Funny how time slips by, isn't it?

nisakiman said...

Salutations, DP. You continue to inform with both wit and eloquence. I shall raise a glass or three to mark your 6th.

Στην υγειά σου!

Long may you continue to rattle the cages of the terminally complacent and the malevolently coercive.

jtpjc said...

"I shall raise a glass in your honour"

Raising glasses is bad for you. There should be a law against that.

Geoff Cliff said...

Wishing you continued success in both your spheres of operation. If the one that pays the bills meets with the approbation that you earn from your exemplary scripts, Puddlecote Inc. should shortly be earning more than Big Tobacco and Big Pharma combined. Please remember your fans when that happens!

cfrankdavis said...

Keep it up.

Mark.S. said...

Jolly well done, Mr Puddlecote.
Looking forward to more shedding light on taxpayer funded nagging in the future.

Jack Savage said...

Please keep going. This is going to be a very useful historical record one day...if it is not already.

Dick_Puddlecote said...

I'm a mere pup compared to you, LR. Was so busy I only noticed recently saw that you reached a decade, congrats! :)

JonathanBagley said...

Keep it up Dick.

Chalcedon said...

Love the blog and have been reading it for years. Good luck with the tender. All the best.

theprog said...

Cheers!

Junican said...

Just keep on telling it as it is, DP. Sooner or later, our voices will be heard.

truckerlyn said...

Well done DP an excellent and informative site. Many thanks for all your hard work and dedication.

smiffy01 said...

And whilst you are drumming up a mere £6m in biz DP, the war for Alan Auld continues! :) All those wishing to help out a bit please nip over to http://www.justice4smokers.co.uk/?page_id=291 and see what is happening in the war against this pathetic prohibition!