The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 3,900 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 7 years to get that many views.
“I never make predictions………and I never will” – One of the most famous utterances of footballer Paul ‘Gazza’ Gascoigne which has passed into commentary legend, but actually makes more sense than we all think.
If experience teaches us anything (and it doesn’t) predicting anything is utter folly. To stay with the North East footballing analogy, last season Newcastle United were flying high in the league and ended up qualifying for Europe.
The darlings of TV and regular scorer of inspiring goals (Chelsea away) the owner rewarded the manager with an unprecedented 8 year contract. Last night they conceded seven goals and dropped to within three points of the relegation zone.
Fate and time make a mockery of all predictions so instead I thought I’d look back over the last year – only to find that makes a mockery of expectations too.
It felt a bit like that moment in the TV show Mad Men when Sterling Cooper loses the Lucky Strike account.
Something that’s had blood, sweat, tears and the unrelenting efforts of a whole team invested in it was about to evaporate. Continue reading
Here’s a post I did for the brilliant comms2point0 website a while back. This week we had our final meeting of 2012 which reminded me I hadn’t posted this here yet:
This post was written for the #weeklyblogclub, a collection of writers and blogs that publish work on a range of different topics each week. Each week there is a suggested topic which I always manage to ignore but for the 50th week I promised to stick to the script and write about “Landmarks”.
What can you say about landmarks? By the time you reach adulthood you don’t really know you’re approaching one until it hits you and then it’s too late.
Another guest blog this time from our event support officer Sue Campbell. Earlier in the year I spoke about the importance of filming here but it’s far better coming straight from the source:
I’ve not blogged for a while and in the absence of anything worthwhile to say I thought I’d stick up a few images.
I almost always have an iphone with me & these are a few of the random shots taken around Newcastle and Northumberland.
Partly inspired by the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition at the Brilliant Side Gallery although nowhere near in terms of quality.
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