It's not that it was an anniversary or anything. I just wondered what year had I started blogging and how many posts I might have done.
I am blogging under two accounts, Photopol, my main one, and Benny The Bridgebuilder which I started up as a vehicle for religion-related posts that I wanted to keep separate.
PHOTOPOL - 885 posts
My main Photopol blog is Photopol. This should be clear from the totals. It is based on my website of the same name, one suggested by Nora. The two elements are Photo (I take photos) and Pol (the Irish language version of my name).
https://photopol.blogspot.com
CNAGAIRE - 127 posts
I used to do both English and Irish language posts on the same blog, but when I entered an Oireachtas competition for blogging in Irish in 2008 I set up a separate blog for the purpose and have kept that since for any posts I do in Irish.
https://ancnagaire.blogspot.com
BRUGES (BRUGGE) - 18 posts
In 2018 I visited Brugge to celebrate the 50th anniversary of our graduation with my classmates from 1968. I took hundreds of photos and decided to display them, with commentary, in a separate blog.
https://bezoeken.blogspot.com
COLLEGE OF EUROPE - 20 posts
In 1968, in keeping with the custom at the time, I compiled a class yearbook and sent it back to the College. There has not been sight or sound of it since. It just vanished into thin air.
So I decided, in the 50th anniversary year, to assemble a blog record of my year at the College. I had hundreds of my own negatives and some photos taken by other students, all of which I scanned. I had fun arranging the most relevant of these into themes and posting them, with commentary, into a separate blog.
https://bezoeken67.blogspot.com
INTRODUCING JERSEY
Finally, I had been posting on Photopol on the child sexual abuse scandal in Jersey since about 2011. I had also been commenting on a number of Jersey blogs which were tackling this issue.
A fellow commenter, Leigh LaFon (@Denverelle) suggested that, in the light of my comments, I might do some posts summarily outlining the situation in Jersey as background to then current developments. She felt that these could then form points of reference for those coming newly to the scene.
I did a number of posts on Jersey on my main blog but copied them to Introducing Jersey for the convenience of readers who might be interested only in Jersey. As these are copies, I have not counted them in the total.
https://introducingjersey.blogspot.com
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And finaly just for the sake of completeness under Photopol, my extensive website.
https://photopol.com/ ]]
BULLS - 28 posts
I started this blog, for religion-related posts, two years after Cardinal Ratzinger, Head of the CDF/Inquisition, became Pope Benedict XVI.
The title Bulls refers to Papal Bulls and Benny the Bridgebuilder picks up on Benedict and Pontifex (bridge builder).
The blog started in 2007 but at the end of 2011 Blogger/Google deleted it for infringing their rules. This turned out to be a misunderstanding over some html code which I have detailed here.
https://bullsxvi.blogspot.com
DOMINUSVOBISCUIT - 119 posts
When Bulls was deleted, as well as trying to get it back, I set up a new blog in its place. I was so taken with the new blog template and title that I decided to keep it instead of updating Bulls when I eventually got it back.
As an altar boy in my youth I was very familiar with the phrase Dominus Vobiscum and as we were then approaching the International Eucharistic Congress to be held in Dublin I added in the Host and came up with Dominusvobiscuit. In case you end up looking at it I should explain that a Department in the Curia is known as a Dicastery.
https://dominusvobiscuit.blogspot.com
I joined Twitter in 2009 under the name Irlpol. The family joined around the same time with names Irl + name.
I find Twitter a very useful tool for following developments, expressing a point of view on a current matter, bringing worthy tweets to the attention of others, and linking to my blog posts.
https://twitter.com/irlpol
I have two other Twitter account which I use very occasionally for (clean) fun.
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