One of my start of year traditions is to look at the most viewed posts here last year, and this year is no different. Once again I’m sharing two lists again, the first of which shows the top ten posts created in 2021, the second list is the top ten posts created at any time.
So onto the top 10 posts created in 2021.
1 Eight years (and 1 month) blogging
Last year I was running behind time on marking my blog anniversary, and took the opportunity to reflect on eight things that had changed since the previous year, and how my life had altered during that part of the pandemic. If I’m honest, I’m not sure I thought we’d still be quite so in the thick of it, but we are. Hopefully we are at least on the start of the end.
Photo by Scott Rodgerson on Unsplash
2 A tale of two desks
After about a year of working from home, we decided to get ourselves a desk each - and here I look at how our desks show our different personalities. I don’t think anyone was really that surprised.
3 A new crochet project
A post sharing my enjoyment of my yarn advent calendar, and the plans for my project. That’s finished, and I enjoyed the box so much I got another one for the advent just gone - more to follow on that one soon.
4 Two footstools and a tassel
This post was based on a visit to the Long Gallery at Blickling in Norfolk, which is as its name suggests long, and full of some wonderful tapestry, which while clearly traditional has modern touches too.
5 Calm and swirls in the Mediterranean garden at Houghton Hall
Another Norfolk post has made it into this top 10, and a visit to a place I think we should go to more often - maybe this year we will.
6 A bathroom refresh
Back at the start of last year we finally acted on plans to update our bathroom and while when I wrote this post there was still a little time to wait, and of course a few twists and turns along the way, we did get our new vanity unit into use.
AREZZO WALL HUNG VANITY UNIT, VICTORIAN PLUMBING
7 City green spaces
By the time Easter came around last year, like many people, we were itching to get out and about. But unlike most people we decided to head into the City of London and walk around and around visiting many places that were common to us when we worked in town.
8 Irony and priorities
Finally in April and not without irony I shared my word of the year - which was in fact priorities - and looking back now had its moments, and was overall helpful, but see what I thought at the time.
Photo by Sara Kurfeß on Unsplash
9 A fascination with boxes
It’s not a bad fascination to have, well as long as the boxes are pretty! These past few months we’ve been collecting the more mundane cardboard sort for MOH’s mum and her house move. The ones in this post though are much prettier.
10 The Chinese Streamside Garden at RHS Bridgewater
I’m pleased to see a post from the new RHS garden make it into the top 10 - I’m sure I have plenty more to share from there. I’ve realised that photo editing is something I’ve been particularly bad at, which isn’t much use for when it comes to blogging about our visits.
I always find it interest to see which posts make it into the lists, and as I’ve said before as long as my blog reflects my life then I’m happy.
Now onto that second list
This list is posts created at any time but viewed in 2021, the year in brackets is the year it was originally posted - and it’s very similar to this list last year. For whatever reason these posts continue to attract views, I’m glad that some of our garden and our gabion baskets are in there.
Filling our gabion baskets (2017)
So there you go, that’s these lists completed for another year. Tradition completed!
