M is still in Canada/Alaska, but I am going up to Sydney today to meet Max, one of M’s flatmates.

So this entry I will just do part of my customary end of month thing. I won’t even try to compete with my cousin’s son Harrison Cartwright who had 40,000 visits in the past 24 hours for his post on Todd Carney’s “bubbling”. But it does look as if June 2014 will be my best so far on this blog, albeit several thousands fewer than Harrison’s post!

In June 2014 the most visited posts here have been:

1. Home page / Archives 817 views
2. It was 50 years ago today! The Beatles in Australia 53
3. There is nothing strange or unbalanced about Tony Abbott – is there? 38
4. The 18 June photos concluded: dedicated to Lynne and Izzy 25
5. Over a Sichuan lunch on Saturday 24
6. Some thoughts on Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl 22
7. Winter by the sea – 6 – and an update — Wollongong 18
8. Wild weather, wild chaplains, wild verdicts… 12
9. Another week in paradise – 2 – and tradition reasserted by High Court 10
10. Megafires, Tiananmen, and a sad #QandA on Monday 10
11. Family history–some news on the Whitfield front 10
12. Shock and Gore and the weather in West Wollongong this morning 7