Sunshine Award, thanks Jill!


Sunshine Award

Jill London has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Sunshine Award.

Thank you so much for this wonderful gesture!

Here are the rules:

Include the award’s logo in a post or on your blog.
Link to the person who nominated you.
Answer 10 questions about yourself.
Nominate 10 bloggers.
Link your nominees to the post and comment on their blogs, letting them know they have been nominated.

The 10 questions:

Favourite food: pineapple.

- Favourite actor: Melina Mercouri.

- Favourite TV show: I don’t watch much TV. Wildlife documentaries.

- Favourite tear-jerker: The Bear.

- Favourite sport: track and field.

- Lucky number: I don’t think a number has ever brought me luck or misery :)

- Tea or coffee: tomato juice.

- Holidays – rest on the beach or active time: wildlife watching. Like here.

- Twitter or Facebook: Twitter, as Facebook has privacy issues.

- Favourite Christmas movie: this video:

My ten nominees are:

1. Walking with the Alligators

2. Denisa Aricescu Poezii

3. The ObamaCrat.com

4. JSC: Jamaicans in Solidarity with Cuba

5. digital catharsis

6. My French Heaven

7. Paris en photographies

8. People, Places and Bling!

9. TheReporterandTheGirlMINUSTheSuperman!

10. The Crafty Cook Nook

Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Bette!


Very Inspiring Blogger Award

This blog was nominated on April 25, 2013 by Bette A. Stevens, Children’s Author, for the Very Inspiring Blogger Award.

First of all, I would like to thank Bette A. Stevens of the blog 4writersandreaders for this gracious nomination. Please, check out her awesome literary blog.

The Very inspiring Blogger Award rules are as follows:

  • Display the award on your blog
  • Link back to the person who nominated you
  • State 7 things about yourself
  • Nominate 15 bloggers, link to them, and notify them about their nominations

Seven things about myself:

1. Where did visitors to my blog come from today, so far?

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 74
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 59
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 49
Australia FlagAustralia 14
Canada FlagCanada 12
Tunisia FlagTunisia 11
Germany FlagGermany 8
India FlagIndia 7
Malaysia FlagMalaysia 4
Singapore FlagSingapore 3
New Zealand FlagNew Zealand 3
Bahrain FlagBahrain 3
Philippines FlagPhilippines 3

2. Where did visitors to my blog come from this week?

Top Views by Country for 7 days ending 2013-05-05 (Summarized)

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 1,222
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 414
Canada FlagCanada 238
Jamaica FlagJamaica 131
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 121
Australia FlagAustralia 102
France FlagFrance 88
India FlagIndia 87
Greece FlagGreece 72
Germany FlagGermany 69
Tunisia FlagTunisia 59
Ireland FlagIreland 49
Italy FlagItaly 33
New Zealand FlagNew Zealand 32
Indonesia FlagIndonesia 32
Singapore FlagSingapore 30
Brazil FlagBrazil 29
Sweden FlagSweden 28
Philippines FlagPhilippines 25
Spain FlagSpain 23
South Africa FlagSouth Africa 22
Belgium FlagBelgium 21
Bahrain FlagBahrain 19
Saudi Arabia FlagSaudi Arabia 18
Malta FlagMalta 16
Malaysia FlagMalaysia 15
Armenia FlagArmenia 13
Israel FlagIsrael 13
Finland FlagFinland 12
Poland FlagPoland 12
Switzerland FlagSwitzerland 10
Japan FlagJapan 10
Denmark FlagDenmark 10
Korea, Republic of FlagRepublic of Korea 9
United Arab Emirates FlagUnited Arab Emirates 9
Portugal FlagPortugal 9
Thailand FlagThailand 9
Lebanon FlagLebanon 8
Romania FlagRomania 8
Argentina FlagArgentina 7
Czech Republic FlagCzech Republic 7
Hungary FlagHungary 7
Slovenia FlagSlovenia 7
Russian Federation FlagRussian Federation 6
Norway FlagNorway 6
Turkey FlagTurkey 6
Taiwan, Province of China FlagTaiwan 6
Viet Nam FlagViet Nam 6
Pakistan FlagPakistan 5
Luxembourg FlagLuxembourg 5
Kenya FlagKenya 5
Cyprus FlagCyprus 5
Venezuela FlagVenezuela 5

3. Which posts on my blog were most popular this week?

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-05-05 (Summarized)

Title Views
Home page / Archives 544
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka 72
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update 49
Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks Joe! 40
About 40
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England 36
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer 34
New Dutch king, coronation and opposition 30
Dutch princess’ father’s Argentine criminal indiction 30
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal 29
Awards 28
Save Ireland’s forests 26
US singer David Rovics concert in England 25
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation 25
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger 25
Grasshopper warbler and black-necked grebes again 24
April, record number of visitors to this blog 24
Bumblebee, wheatears, and lizard 24
UAE princely hunters threaten Tanzanian people and wildlife 23
Scotland against bedroom tax 22
WordPress Family Award, thanks Ajaytao 2010 and oasien! 22

4. These services have been used most often to share posts on my site:

Name Shares
Twitter 1520
Facebook 499
Press This 107
Tumblr 81
Pinterest 27
LinkedIn 26
StumbleUpon 20
Reddit 17
Digg 16
Email 12

5. These posts on my site got the most shares:

Title Shares
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation 22
Noam Chomsky on Obama, Romney 19
Dutch war crimes in Indonesia, photos 14
Stop United States wolf killing 12
Monsanto kills monarch butterflies 10
Kemp’s ridley turtle saved in the USA 10
New mouse lemur species discoveries in Madagascar 9
Stop Monsanto corporate food power grab, petition 8
British anti-nuclear weapons demonstration 8
German Kentish plover in England 8
Two new lizard species discovered in Peru 8
Antarctic explorer Scott’s last letter published at last 8
British cuckoos’ Sahara spring migration 8
British government imposes more taxes on poor people 8
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl 8
Dinosaur age bird discovery 8
Northern light in Alaska, video 8
Joint Strike Fighter billion-dollar failure 8
Trophy hunting banned in Botswana and Zambia 8
Saudi fight for women’s rights 8
Saving Canadian turtles’ lives 8
Italian far Right money-laundering scandal 8

6. Which Gravatars were clicked most on my blog?

Clicks for all days ending 2013-05-05 (Summarized)

gravatar.com/petrel41 85
gravatar.com/marinakanavaki 64
gravatar.com/fluxnews 23
gravatar.com/narhvalur 23
gravatar.com/edamib 20
gravatar.com/natycalinescu 19
gravatar.com/dragoscalinescu 18
gravatar.com/kotev1000 16
gravatar.com/clanmother 16
gravatar.com/metaretriever2 15
gravatar.com/waldotomosky 14
gravatar.com/gdartdesign 13
gravatar.com/magdalena36 13
gravatar.com/kingroar 11
gravatar.com/schtiel 11
gravatar.com/cindyknoke 11

7. Which English Wikipedia articles were clicked most on my blog?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_child_abuse_scandal 23
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-tailed_Hawk 20
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_H%C3%B6lderlin 12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liuwa_Plain_National_Park 12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamad_bin_Jassim_bin_Jaber_Al_Thani 12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Monday_Club 12
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antigone 11
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webcam 10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_art_in_Pompeii?#Brothels 10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poecilotheria_rajaei 10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-tail 10
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus 9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_junta 9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_features 9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arapaima 9
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croesus 8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haifa_Wehbe 8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus_antiquus 8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlyn%27s_monkey 8
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Teratorn 7
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect 7
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnter_Grass 7

My fifteen nominees are:

1. Happy Kittens: World of opinions, cats, and love

2. Flowery Prose

3. dawnofthegreeks

4. ♥ One Thousand And One Illegal Dreams ♥ Sparkle & Love ♥

5. ON MY WAY…

6. Dr Bill Wooten

7. TayexSoyHermoso

8. everyphototunity

9. FAB.G.BLOG

10. Living and Lovin

11. “R”HubBlog

12. The Linden Chronicles

13. Serenity’s Musings

14. cancerkillingrecipe

15. antilandscaper

My Zemanta working again


This is a dutch video about the Drents-Friese Wold national park.

The Drents-Friese Wold national park is beautiful. There will still one more post on my blog about it.

My Internet connection there worked.

However, my Zemanta did not work. With Zemanta, you can add extra links etc. to a blog post.

I will now use Zemanta to improve my blog posts of the past week.

WordPress Family Award, thanks Ajaytao 2010 and oasien!


WordPress Family Award

Thank you, Ajaytao 2010, and thank you, oasien, for nominating Dear Kitty. Some blog for the WordPress Family Award!

Here is what the creator of the award had to say about it:

“This is an award for everyone who is part of the “Word Press Family” I start this award on the basis that the WordPress family has taken me in, and showed me love and a caring side only WordPress can. The way people take a second to be nice, to answer a question and not make things a competition amazes me here. I know I have been given many awards, but I wanted to leave my own legacy on here by creating my own award, as many have done before. This represents “Family” we never meet, but are there for us as family. It is my honour to start this award”.

The rules are as follows:

1. Display the award logo on your blog.

2. Link back to the person who nominated you.

3. Nominate 10 others you see as having an impact on your WordPress experience and family

4. Let your 10 Family members know you have awarded them

5. That is it. Just please pick 10 people who have taken you as a friend, and spread the love.

I do feel that WordPress has given me a new online “Family” and I am proud to nominate the following ten members of my family for this award:

1. Vicky Nanjappa

2. outdoorpictures

3. diGitaL heGeMon

4. Nature Mom

5. Zeebra Designs & Destinations

6. Mary Gilmartin

7. slicethelife

8. Il mio giornale di bordo

9. oahuhiking

10. Victor Rakmil Photography

April, record number of visitors to this blog


Blogging, cartoon

Ever since December 2012, WordPress stats count not only the numbers of visits to blogs, but numbers of visitors as well.

Numbers of visitors are always lower than numbers of visits, as many visitors see more than one blog post or page.

So far, the record month for the number of visitors to Dear Kitty. Some blog was January 2013, with 11,221 visitors.

In April 2013, the month which is just finished, that record was broken: 11,904 visitors.

Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks Joe!


Most Influential Blogger Award

Joe of Iamforchange’s Blog has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Most Influential Blogger Award. Thank you, Joe, for this kind gesture!

There were no further rules (except, I think, nominating other blogs, linking to them, and telling them about their nominations).

My nominees are:

1. Leave reality outside before entering! this is a world of fantasy!

2. Artsakh Liberty

3. Writings of Rascoe

4. Moorbey’z Blog

5. A Birder´s Blog

6. Playground

7. play.think.create

8. prehistoricworldofyajur

9. Fern Balch

10. Audreysmithnaturequest’s Blog

11. amatterofinstinct

12. The Bawi Bawarchi

Best Moment Award, thanks Tazein, Shaun and Khalil!


RULES of the Best Moment Award:

Winners re-post this completely with their acceptance speech. This could be written or video. Winners have the privilege of awarding the next awards! The re-post should include a NEW set of people/blogs worthy of the award; and, winners, notify them the great news!

Best-Moment-Award

  • What makes a good acceptance speech?
    • Gratitude. Thank the people who helped you along the way
    • Humour. Keep us entertained and smiling
    • Inspiration. Make your story touch our lives
  • Get an idea from the great acceptance speeches, compiled in MomentMatters.com/Speech
  • Display the award’s badge on your blog/website, downloadable in MomentMatters.com/Award

ACCEPTANCE SPEECH

First, I would like to thank Tazein and Shaun and Khalil for nominating me for this award. Thank you so much, my dear blogging friends!

These kind nominations came just before Dear Kitty. Some blog reached the milestone of 200,000 visits ever since moving to WordPress. When I had to move my blog once again in December 2011, I never expected that (I had eight visits then, on my first WordPress day …). Thanks, all of you!

Finally, a bit of humour.

Blogging, cartoon

My nominees are:

1. aristonorganic

2. Blue Hyacinth Operetta

3. Vagabond Virginia

4. This Labyrinth I Roam!

5. Fit To Work: Poets Against Atos

6. Expressions of my life – An evolution of art

7. ramblingpainter

8. ~ Loredana Milu ~

9. pindanpost

10. orisphoto

Shine On Award, thanks oasien and Tazein!


Shine On Award

Oasien of the blog Chant d’oasien and Tazein of transcendingbordersblog have been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Shine On Award.

Thank you both so much for this, my dear blogger friends!

The rules of this award are:

Link back to the person (or people) who nominated you.
Add the award logo to your blog.
Share seven things about yourself.
Nominate 10 – 15 bloggers, and link to them, and tell them about their nomination.

Seven things about me:

1. I would like to be able to visit more blogs. But some bloggers who are so kind to, eg, “like” my blog posts have Gravatars without links to their blogs; or with links to an old blog site which does not work any more. So, please, update your Gravatar profiles!

2. Where did the visitors to my blog come from today, so far?

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 76
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 33
Jamaica FlagJamaica 23
Australia FlagAustralia 14
Italy FlagItaly 14
Germany FlagGermany 12
Tunisia FlagTunisia 11
Canada FlagCanada 10
India FlagIndia 10
New Zealand FlagNew Zealand 8
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 7
Sweden FlagSweden 6
Malaysia FlagMalaysia 5

3. Where did the visitors to my blog come from, ever since it moved to WordPress in December 2011?

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 67,632
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 29,542
Canada FlagCanada 10,984
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 8,078
Greece FlagGreece 5,763
Australia FlagAustralia 5,049
India FlagIndia 4,926
Romania FlagRomania 4,230
Germany FlagGermany 3,655
France FlagFrance 3,193
Jamaica FlagJamaica 2,806
New Zealand FlagNew Zealand 2,389
Sweden FlagSweden 2,275
Italy FlagItaly 2,165
Belgium FlagBelgium 2,098
Spain FlagSpain 1,869
Philippines FlagPhilippines 1,732
Armenia FlagArmenia 1,720
Singapore FlagSingapore 1,618
Ireland FlagIreland 1,347
Indonesia FlagIndonesia 1,344
Bahrain FlagBahrain 1,089
Saudi Arabia FlagSaudi Arabia 1,054
Brazil FlagBrazil 1,052
Tunisia FlagTunisia 912
South Africa FlagSouth Africa 910
Pakistan FlagPakistan 900
Switzerland FlagSwitzerland 893
Turkey FlagTurkey 857
Japan FlagJapan 837
United Arab Emirates FlagUnited Arab Emirates 774
Poland FlagPoland 764
Norway FlagNorway 741
Malaysia FlagMalaysia 726
Hong Kong FlagHong Kong 712
Thailand FlagThailand 711
Russian Federation FlagRussian Federation 705
Portugal FlagPortugal 681
Finland FlagFinland 670
Denmark FlagDenmark 653
Mexico FlagMexico 617

4. Which blog posts (or pages) attracted most visits this month?

Top Posts for 30 days ending 2013-04-25 (Summarized)

Title Views
Home page / Archives 3,002
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka 541
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl 532
Dog, cat meat in Spanish meatballs? 351
Stop Monsanto corporate food power grab, petition 223
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update 221
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer 193
About 192
Ambergris treasure found in dead Texel whale 145
South Korean miniskirt ban 139
Fascist becomes Sunderland football manager 112

5. Which blog posts attracted most visits during the past three months?

Top Posts for 90 days ending 2013-04-25 (Summarized)

2013-01-25 to Today

Title Views
Home page / Archives 8,228
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl 836
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update 686
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer 638
About 563
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka 541
Dog, cat meat in Spanish meatballs? 351
USA: ancient Egyptian sarcophagus as corporate boss’ plaything 280
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution 248
Britain: Tony Blair’s own Watergate scandal 224
Stop Monsanto corporate food power grab, petition 223
French war in Mali war crimes 214
Ghanaian women’s forced prostitution in Bahrain 208
Awards 208
South Korean miniskirt ban 203
Monkeys ride capybara, photo 186

6. Which blog posts attracted most visits during the past year?

Top Posts for 365 days ending 2013-04-25 (Summarized)

2012-04-25 to Today

Title Views
Home page / Archives 28,636
British Thatcher aide accused of child abuse 5,768
After 35 years, wounds of Vietnamese napalm girl Kim Phuc still hurt 2,237
About 1,572
Günter Grass poem on Greece and austerity, English translation 1,553
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer 1,401
Thatcher’s Downing Street child abuse scandal 1,015
Long-tailed tits, owls, and flowers 867
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl 836
Thai women’s escape from Bahraini forced prostitution 778
New African monkey species discovered 742
Dinosaur discovery in France 691
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update 686

7. WordPress writes:

These services have been used most often to share your posts on your site

Name Shares
Twitter 1505
Facebook 495
Press This 107
Tumblr 80
Pinterest 26
LinkedIn 26
StumbleUpon 18
Digg 16
Reddit 15
Email 11

My nominees are:

1. Pmespeak’s Blog

2. Kaligrafi Nusantara

3. Pr. Samuel Lemos

4. Call Me Appetite’s Welt

5. Spread Information

6. Mysteries of the Wasteland

7. Clouds N Cups, Be With Us

8. Cindy Knoke

9. Reflections on Life Thus Far

10. talainsphotographyblog

11. On Genocide

12. Elizabeth Ayers

13. The Crafty Cook Nook

14. VERDE DESPERTAR

15. Nature Mom

Liebster Award, thank you Tazein!


Liebster Award

Tazein of transcendingbordersblog has been so kind to nominate Dear Kitty. Some blog for the Liebster Award.

Thank you so much, my dear blogger friend!

The rules of the Liebster Award:

1. Add the award logo to your blog.
2. Say 11 things about yourself.
2. Answer the 11 questions by the person who nominated you.
3. Create 11 new questions.
4. Pass the award onto 11 other blogs, link to them, and let them know.

11 things about me:

1. I have many sources for my blog: including hundreds of RSS feeds, twitter subscriptions, eMail …
2. Where did visitors to my blog come from today, so far?

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 82
Jamaica FlagJamaica 38
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 15
Canada FlagCanada 14
Australia FlagAustralia 12
Sri Lanka FlagSri Lanka 8
Tunisia FlagTunisia 7
India FlagIndia 5
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 5
Indonesia FlagIndonesia 5
Thailand FlagThailand 4
Iraq FlagIraq 4
Mexico FlagMexico 3

3. Where did visitors to my blog come from this week?

Top Views by Country for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Country Views
United States FlagUnited States 1,400
United Kingdom FlagUnited Kingdom 523
Canada FlagCanada 306
Jamaica FlagJamaica 178
Australia FlagAustralia 153
Tunisia FlagTunisia 134
India FlagIndia 108
Netherlands FlagNetherlands 89
Greece FlagGreece 84
Sweden FlagSweden 76
Germany FlagGermany 69
France FlagFrance 58
Spain FlagSpain 44
New Zealand FlagNew Zealand 43
Singapore FlagSingapore 39
Armenia FlagArmenia 39
Italy FlagItaly 38
Ireland FlagIreland 33
Indonesia FlagIndonesia 33
Philippines FlagPhilippines 27
Norway FlagNorway 27
Romania FlagRomania 25

4. Which blog posts attracted most visits this week?

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Title Views
Home page / Archives 501
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka 115
Boston bomb horror, pretext for Islamophobic violence 91
Monsanto threatens food security, Internet petition 74
Irish anti-austerity victory 63
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update 56
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger 43
Best Moment Award, thanks supernova! 43
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer 39
Workers shot in Greece for protesting unpaid wages 37
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl 37
One Boston teenage terrorist, and everyone’s civil liberties 35
About 35

5. Which sites referred most to my blog this week?

Referrers for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Referrer Views
Search Engines 1,359
WordPress.com Reader 172
Google 148
2012indyinfo.com 127
mail.yahoo.com 62
google.co.uk 52
WordPress Dashboard 48
topix.com 30
Facebook 28
google.ca 25
google.co.in 17
Twitter 14
argylesock.wordpress.com 11

6. To which other sites did my blog refer most this week?

Clicks for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

URL Clicks
en.wikipedia.org 30
r.zemanta.com 13
avaaz.org 10
secure.avaaz.org/en/stop_monsanto_nd4/?bHFhfab&v=24248 10
transcendingbordersblog.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/best-moment-award1.jpg 6
independent.co.uk 5
wildlifeextra.com 4
dailymail.co.uk 4
maps.google.com 3
bbc.co.uk 3
wsws.org 3
momentmatters.com 3
allaboutbirds.org 2
nature.com 2
planetsave.com/2013/04/06/face-sized-tarantula-spider-discovered-in-sri-lanka-already-threatened-with-extinction-from-deforestation/ 2
www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/06/061025.lampreyfossil.shtml 2
telegraph.co.uk 2
csmonitor.com 2

7. Which search terms did Internauts use most this week to find my site?

Search Terms for 7 days ending 2013-04-24 (Summarized)

Search Views
iguana 23
sri lanka new spider 14
bahrain prostitution 8
watergate scandal 8
lady liuwa 8
prostitution in bahrain 6
austerity cartoon 6
bishop john francis scandal 5
new spider species 5
new spider species in sri lanka 5
new spider species 2013 5
poisonous caterpillars 5
dinosaur bones 5
caterpillars 5

8. Who commented most at my blog recently?

oasien 43
prayingforoneday 40
BeWithUs 22
narhvalur 22
2embracethelight 19
Clanmother 13

9. Which of my blog posts got most comments?

Post Comments
Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks oasien! 40
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Shaun! 37
Marsh tits, parakeets, starlings and sanderlings 36
Awards 36
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl 32
Somali police rape woman, then jail her 29
Versatile Blogger Award, thanks tuttacronaca! 28
Very Inspiring Blogger Award, thanks Ina Helgiu! 27
175,000 visits at this blog 27
First godwits, redshank of 2013 27
Red fox den webcam 27

* Based on the 1000 most recent comments.

10. Some more WordPress statistics on comments at my blog:

Comments per month: 1,088
Total comments: 53,906
Most active recent day: April 4, 2013
Most active time of day: 15:00

11. In my blog, there are now 1,069 posts in the category Women’s issues.

Here are Tazein’s 11 questions for me:

1-How many siblings, if any, do you have? One.

2-Do you love music? Yes, see here.

3-What is your most vivid childhood memory? Seeing redwings on a frozen meadow.

4-What helps you to relax? Watching birds.

5-Do you believe in good luck? Sometimes, I have it; sometimes I don’t :)

6-What is your favorite color? Red.

7-What is that one thing you feel strongly about? Having peace instead of wars.

8-Are you content with what you have? Yes.

9-Are you all holding jobs? Sort of.

10-Are you happy with your current life? Yes!

11-What is your biggest dream in life? To see birds in Svalbard.

My 11 new questions for my nominees are:

1. Have you ever seen a dinosaur in a museum?

2. If so, what species was it?

3. Which person, dead now, would you like to meet, if it would be possible?

4. Which person, dead now, would you not like to meet, even if it would be possible?

5. What is your favourite city?

6. What is your favourite area of natural beauty?

7. What is your favourite painting?

8. What is your favourite sculpture?

9. If you could travel in a spacecraft, to where in space would you like to go?

10. What is your favourite food?

11. What was/is your favourite subject at school?

My 11 nominees are:

1. antilandscaper

2.  the CITIZENS of FASHION

3. Cheeni Thoughts

4. shedreamsingreenblog

5. Kenya Birding

6. Denisa Aricescu Poezii

7. Viața Prin Ochi De Femeie

8. Keep or Pitch?

9. OnePointSafety

10. Micheline’s Blog ~ Art, music, books, history & current events

11. Afterburn

200,000 visits to this blog


Ever since my blog had to move to WordPress in December 2011, WordPress statistics count the number of visits to Dear Kitty. Some blog.

Today, the counter passed the 200,000 visits mark.

I don’t know by whom this visit #200,000 was, as WordPress does not say that. However, all visitors are welcome, so it does not really matter!

So, some fireworks to celebrate visit #200,000.

This video says about itself:

How to fold the origami Fireworks

Designed by Yami Yamauchi.

Presented here by Jo Nakashima with permission of the creator.