
Exactly 1 year ago to day I posted the first post on this blog. the Junket Book illustration above is from that post. Initially the plan was to run it for this one year only just for fun as I was already running a fairly successful blog and I’ll admit I have been close to closing this one down several times. Every blogger, no matter what sort of blog they run needs visitors to make it worthwhile and visitors came slow and few in the beginning.
Last December this blog had 855 page views all told, my other blog had 41,000. 6 months later the page views here had doubled to a little under 1600, but the other one still clocked in over 40,000 a month. On the other hand I’ve started up many sites and blogs both professionally and privately and I know the breaking point comes after between 6 and 12 months and I’m a stubborn man and this December the stats will show between 4500 and 5000 page views if the trend keeps up.

Starting to post recipes bilingually was a smart move, Norwegian visitors usually comes in second only beaten by Americans these days and being a professional web designer I know how to tag a post and tagging in two languages has it’s advantages obviously.
But most important of all, I’ve come in contact with a lot of very nice other foodies through this blog, some I even call friends to day, so closing down the blog to day as the original plan was is out of the question. Besides I’ve promised you Christmas recipes all the way up to Christmas Eve 😉
Last but not least I like to thank every one of you who drop by my blog if only to check out a recipe or two now and then or more often and even click a like or post a comment here and there, it’s you that makes it worth carrying on.

This one is for all of you – Ted
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