Tag ‘You’re it’ Award, thanks Shaun!

Shaun of the Looking for reasoning to a complicated world blog has been so kind to nominate this blog for the Tag “You’re it” Award. Thank you for this generous gesture!

The rules of this award are:

1.  Post a picture of the award on your blog.

2.  Tagback the person who tagged you to let them know you’ve accepted the award.

3.  State 11 facts about yourself.

4.  Answer the 11 questions I’ve asked you.

5.  Tag the same amount of people as there are letters in your name [which means 8 in my case].

6.  Ask your OWN 11 questions to the people you’ve tagged.

7.  Contact the people you’ve tagged to let them know they’ve been tagged.

Eleven things about myself:

1. Ever since my blog moved to WordPress in December 2011, there have been 196,443 views.

2. This week, most views of my blog came from these countries:

Top Views by Country for 7 days ending 2013-04-18 (Summarized)

Country	Views
United States	1,575
United Kingdom	740
Canada	347
Jamaica	174
Australia	171
Netherlands	114
India	101
Tunisia	98
Greece	91
France	82
Sweden	76
Germany	71
New Zealand	53
Ireland	46
Romania	43
Belgium	35
Philippines	31
Armenia	31
Norway	30
Spain	30
Finland	29
South Africa	26
Singapore	26
Bahrain	24
Switzerland	21
Thailand	20
Indonesia	20
Denmark	20
Japan	19
United Arab Emirates	18
Saudi Arabia	18
Poland	17
Kenya	16
Russian Federation	15
Pakistan	14
Hungary	14
Malaysia	12
Egypt	12

3. This week, the favourite posts at my blog were:

Top Posts for 7 days ending 2013-04-18 (Summarized)

Title		Views
Home page / Archives		644
Big new spider species discovery in Sri Lanka		336
BBC censors Wizard of Oz ‘anti-Thatcher’ song		69
WordPress Family Award, thank you idealisticrebel!		62
About		57
Most Influential Blogger Award, thanks oasien!		56
Bahraini king’s sexual harassment of Lebanese singer		47
Bahrain dictatorship attacks woman		43
Canada goose drives away gorilla, video		40
Poisonous caterpillars infest Spurn Point in England		35
New ancient Egyptian discoveries		29
Boston marathon bomb tragedy, and media rush to judgment		29
Lady Thatcher’s expensive militarist funeral		29
Good Indian lion news		27
Lesser Antillean iguana in danger		26
Frequently asked questions		26
British Thatcher fans mistake satirical song for tribute		26
Stop whipping of raped Maldives girl		26
Blue supergiant star discovered		25
Zambian lioness Lady Liuwa update		25
Bee-killing Bayer’s secrets revealed		25

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

Referrers for 7 days ending 2013-04-18 (Summarized)

Referrer		Views
Search Engines		1,690
WordPress.com Reader		178
Google		161
google.co.uk		89
mail.yahoo.com		51
topix.com		50
WordPress Dashboard		45
google.ca		33
Facebook		25
Twitter		22
google.co.in		21

5. On which links to other sites on my blog did people click most this week?

Clicks for 7 days ending 2013-04-18 (Summarized)

URL	Clicks
en.wikipedia.org	41
r.zemanta.com	11
morningstaronline.co.uk	6
independent.co.uk	6

6. Which search terms did people use this week to get to my blog?

Search Terms for 7 days ending 2013-04-18 (Summarized)

Search	Views
sri lanka new spider	35
archaeological coins of india	15
iguana	14
poisonous caterpillars	13
watergate scandal	9
new spider sri lanka	7
gorilla and goose	6
new spider species	6
how old is lady marge osprey	5
robins	5
new spider species sri lanka	5
bishop john francis scandal	5
ancestors of narwhals	5
prostitution in bahrain	4

7. The most popular topics on Dear Kitty. Some blog are:

Topic	Views
Environment	1,143
Economic, social, trade union, etc.	866
Biology	862
Human rights	702
Invertebrates	543
UK	451
Mammals	421
Crime	370
Birds	353

If you tag your posts effectively, this panel will show you which topics get the most traffic. Snapshot generated from your top posts over the past week.

8. 1,072 people follow this blog.

9. 101 people follow a comment on this blog.

10. Of the 1,072 people subscribing to this blog, 12 do so by Email, the others by WordPress.com.

11. Recently, most comments at my blog have been by:

prayingforoneday		44
oasien		38
BeWithUs		24
2embracethelight		21
narhvalur		16
valeriedavies		15

My answers to Shaun’s 11 questions:

1. Favourite movie?

Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore.

2. Favourite song?

Edwin Starr’s song War (lyrics are here).

3. Where would you go, in another part of the world if you could?

The Antarctic.

4. Stuck on a desert Island, who would you pick, You can pick ANYONE!! ?

A good sailor who would know how to signal passing ships about our being shipwrecked 🙂

5. Where were you born?

In a hospital.

6. What do you hate about your country?

The weather. As Mark Twain used to say: “We all grumble about the weather, but” (dramatic pause) “–but–but nothing is done about it.” 🙂

7. What do you love about your country?

The birds.

8 What is your least favourite Jackson 5 (As a group at the time)?

I must confess I am not an expert on this. The Jackson Five disbanded in 1990, so that was 23 years ago.

9. What food would you not eat?

Chicken. We used to have chickens behind the house when I was small.

10. Does getting awards make you want to kill yourself, or do you like them?

I like them, though it sometimes takes time before I will blog about them 🙂

11. What do you think of Uncle Shaun? I am uncle Shaun.

A really interesting blogger 🙂

My own 11 questions to my nominees:

1. Which politician, no longer alive, do you dislike most?

2. Which politician, still alive, do you dislike most?

3. If you would be a musician, in which orchestra, band etc. would you like to play?

4. Which person is a special inspiration to you?

5. If WordPress would close down, would you stop blogging?

6. If you would have to move your blog from WordPress, where would you move it to, to continue blogging?

7. Which blog was the main inspiration for you to start a blog of your own?

8. About which web site you would not regret it if it would close down?

9. What is your favourite reptile or amphibian?

10. What is your favourite book?

11. What is your favourite Internet site?

My 8 nominees are:

1. Art Instruction Travel Events

2. Enchantments of a beautiful mind

3. Jumbled writer

4. Sha’s Random Thoughts…

5. Tazein of transcendingbordersblog

6. CIGUDEG pleis bilong tu mi

7. bearspawprint

8. Literature And Culture

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