I apologise for the relative lack of postings recently. There’s less incentive to write when you know fewer people are going to read it, and the blog stats still aren’t anywhere near the levels they used to be before it moved to this site.
April has been quiet – a gap between the early Easter/Low Sunday events in March and what promises to be a busy May (I have three significant singing engagements then and the Bath Festival will be on).
We did get to a couple of performances though. My husband went to hear WNO do Eugene Onegin and thought the singing was mostly good with one exception, and the staging perhaps a little over-literal for his taste. Last Saturday I went to hear the Bath Minerva Choir’s Russian programme in Bath Abbey. I was invited to sing in this concert but couldn’t – however as it turned out I was free to attend and managed to get a ticket at the back of the nave. I’ve done quite a lot of the music over the years at Good Friday concerts with the Bath Camerata, and reflected how useful Tavener is to concert planners; his music isn’t hard to teach to a choir but the pieces are of substantial length. Moreover he ticks a box by being still alive, and can be included in both Russian and non-Russian programmes.
I’m now reading blogs via an RSS feed (GoogleReader). I assume this doesn’t affect the statistics you see at your end; or does it?
Robin
You obviously get your blog stats from somewhere – technorati perhaps.
WordPress supplies its own stats on the owner’s dashboard. I’m a little sceptical of them but I can’t embed Google Analytics as I did before.
In answer to Robin’s question – GoogleReader does show up in the stats.
Leaving aside the WordPress stats, apart from a few regular readers I get fewer commenters than I used to. (Of course this could correspond to a change in the behaviour of blog readers, being less likely to comment than they once were?) Also I know that some of the search strings which used to put the blog near the top of the results now don’t, and they don’t show up as search strings in the stats.
I revisited technorati and found that the blog wasn’t listed any more (possibly I never re-registered it after it moved) so I put it back.