The month for this blog began with a trip to Sydney to lunch at The Shakespeare Hotel with M, recently returned from his Canada/Alaska trip.

Rounded off the month yesterday with Chris T at the Red Dragon at Steelers – Mao Family Pork of course!

August has been rather wet

August has been the best month* so far on this blog, and as you will see one entry has been outstanding. It appears the ABC series Anzac Girls – it continues tonight – has attracted quite a lot of interest.

1. Home page / Archives 810 views in August 2014
2. Anzac Girls last night on ABC 226
3. Poetastery and pollies 17
4. All my posts 16
5. Really mixed bag! 14
6. Friday nights in 1957 at Waratah Street West Sutherland 13
7. Le Lievre 13
8. Food for thought and otherwise 12
9. Expedition to Surry Hills — 1 11
10. Laughing Jackass, Settler’s Clock… 11
11. Tangible link to the convict ship “Isabella” and the immigrant ship “Thames” 11
12. Expedition to Surry Hills – 3 – Sydney Boys High 11
13. Some thoughts on Once Upon a Time in Punchbowl 10
14. The flowers of the forest 10
15. About 9
16. Expedition to Surry Hills – 4 – around Bourke Street 8
17. Expedition to Surry Hills – 6 – Devonshire Street 8
18. Expedition to Surry Hills – 2 – The Shakespeare Hotel 8
19. Channel 10, the Commonwealth Games, and Ian Thorpe 8
20. Tom Thumb Lagoon 7
    

*Update 1 September

The WordPress stats for August are now complete: this blog averaged 53 a day in August, total views being 1,634 compared with 46 and 1,420 in July. Sitemeter measures all the blogs in this set, including the archives, plus a remnant archive on Blogspot. There were 5,351 page views in August from 4,268 visits, the second-highest this year.

Most visited on the archive where I have a lot of family history have been:

1. Family stories 3 — About the Whitfields: from convict days 77 views in August
2. 10. But is it art? Responses to the Bill Henson controversy of 2008 44
3. Family stories 4 — A Guringai Family Story — Warren Whitfield 38
4. Home page / Archives 24
5. Top poems 2: John Donne (1572-1631): Satire III — “Of Religion” 19

English/ESL – an archive not on that Sitemeter – averaged 183 per day in August totalling 5,688 views – the best this year but a long way from the peak 18,473 in October 2010.