200 up!

That last blog post about vintage Rolls-Royces happens to have been my 200th! Huzzah!

I broke the first 100 barrier back in June 2010, seven months after starting on this blogging malarkey, and now here I am on 200 posts almost seven months later again! So I seem to be averaging about 100 posts every 7 months (or 14.29 posts per month, if my maths is right!). I've pleasantly surprised myself with the way that this blog has evolved even in that short space of time to the point where I now feel it has developed a perfect little niche for itself, which is what I had hoped for in the first place.

The great thing about vintage blogging is that, thanks to the popularity of vintage at the moment, there always seems to be something interesting and newsworthy to blog about. Not to mention loads of other great like-minded bloggers to follow! My blogroll is about a mile long now, and all of them superb reads. Looking back to just my hundredth post I see that at the time I had 8 followers (which is still about 6 more than I ever expected); since then that number has ballooned to a fantastic 74! I want to thank each and every one of you for taking the time to read (and comment on) my bletherings, by all means keep it coming - I love our little æthereal natterings! What I said then still holds true at 200 and I hope I'll have the opportunity to say it again come the 300th post.

In the meantime, here's a [tenuously linked] treat for you:

100 up!

I'm pleased to say that this very post marks my one hundredth such epistle since I first dipped my æthereal toe in the then-murky waters of blogdom back in November 2009.

As I recall I jocularly predicted at the time that this blog would either set the Internet alight with wonder and brilliance or else sink without a trace in less than month.

Well I am pleased to say that the latter instance did not occur and I am still here 7 months later blogging away happily, having very definitely caught the bug. Total World-Wide-Webbular domination is not yet on the cards though, I'm afraid!

When I set out to start this blog I wisely kept to something straightforward that even a semi IT-literate amateur such as myself could maintain and I'm pleased to see it working so well. I always felt that there was the opportunity for a chronicle of cheery, interesting and [predominately] vintage-related news items and such has proven to be the case. I have also had my eyes opened to a whole new world of like-minded blogs, events, and people that I may never have otherwise come across, so it has all been most definitely worth it.

I must extend my gratitude to the news sites I get the stories from, particularly The Daily Telegraph and the BBC - without them I almost certainly wouldn't have a blog. Last but by no means least I would like to thank the 8 people (so far - there's plenty of room for more!) who have taken the time to follow my random postings - thank you for making me feel like I'm actually passing on stories over the wires rather than just rambling away to myself in vain.

Here's to the next 100 posts and many more besides; I hope that you will continue to read with me all the amusing, light-hearted and interesting articles that are still to come.