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I was just surfing through Google for some information and I retrieved a link to one of the Island Blogging postings.
This poses two issues...
1) I need to watch what I say as we don't know who's watching
2) I wonder what words I could include in my blog so I would appear in various searches...so what are key words people are searching these days?...excluding the rude ones - of course.

It's obviously not only google watchers I have to look out for. It seems that Island bloggers are keeping a close eye on me too!
However, thanks for the comments on my blogs. It's nice to know someone's reading them.
Apologies for not responding to your blogs - but you seem to be on a different level - or perahps even planet - to likes of a simple ovine like myself.
I have been hearing rumours that the manse cat is getting jealous of my hogging of Westray's blogging (do you think I could be a poet?). I'm not sure if he can be bothered though as he's chomping on a mouse in the garden at the moment.
Keep it up - Sunny, Annie B and co. It keeps us low production bloggers encouraged. Cheers.
PS
to all the Westray folk who know who I am...
a) don't let the cat out of the bag (well if you must when the RSPCA man is around)
b) why don't you get blogging too - you can't leave it up to me and (possibly the manse cat) to keep Westray on the islandblogging map - or are you doing better things, if you are- why don't you share. I'm sure there's room for development trust issues as well as the crazy world of Sunny from Arran and her (or whatever gender) dating habits.

Is it just me, or do the blogs sometimes take an age to be published? Is there any strategy to when blogs are processed and vetted? Comments on existing blogs seem to get processed quicker than new posts I think.

Does anyone know or care?

How do you cope with the tension of waiting for your next blog to appear and then see if anyone deigns to visit and/or comment?

I'm just a lonely old sheep (a-hum), waiting for someone to lurve me (la, le-la)...

PS
I also seem to occasionally trip over a list of all bloggers and the times of their latest blogs, but when I want that page, I can't find it - any help out there...anyone out there... or has the blogging time warp got you all?

I feel honoured...

MJC has requested a post, just when I thought I'd managed to control myself enough to get some work done rather than rooting around in the logs for responses.
The trouble with working from home via the internet is that Island Blogging is only one click and three hours away from getting any work done.

Sunny requested a profile for the Fank, but the manse cat has advised me that round here, if you show any interest in the opposite gender you get carted off to the vets and have to endure two ferry rides in a dark box as well as the indiginity of losing vital parts of your anatomy.

He also said occasionally they get confused and check your temperature by sticking the themomter in the wrong end. Mind you he did say that since the last time he went, the vet refused to handle him unless a personal carer (cat's don't have owners) and an ambulance was present. Apparently the vet didn't appreciate the manse cat trying to bite of *his* vital parts. Funny that.

So in the effort to pretend I'm working I do try to be serious occasionally, but I can see that this doesn't always bring many responses (Are there no saxophone folk out there?)

Of course the big topic in the isles is the news of cheaper flights to scottish mainland. Do you think this will cause a mass exodus, or just an influx of outsiders that buy up property so they can claim residency and get a cheaper flight?

On Westray, if you fly into Kirkwall first you get the flight cheaper (拢16) than when you take the first leg from Kirkwall (拢31). This is true regardless of residency.

On Papa Westray and N Ronaldsay there is a cheaper flight (拢10) if you stay overnight, even if you fly out from Kirkwall.

Will that mean I will need to claim residency to get back from Kirkwall - or just that it will become cheaper to fly to Inverness from Kirkwall than to Westray?

Are there any similar dilemmas on the other isles, or will this just mean we can all meet up somewhere exotic (Glasgow?) for less money?

I give up work is too hard...I'm off to threaten the vet it seems like fun.

I was in Kirkwall last night to see comedian Boothby Graffoe last night - and very good he was too. Highly recommended - I think the only other island he's visiting this tour is Skye.

Anyway, I was talking to a few folk I knew and they've all said they've picked up my blog entries. This means I'm going to have to be a bit more careful with my entries. Not that I'm that well known in Orkney, but I do have a very small, but perfectly formed, reputation to keep - so no wild accusations from the Western Isles - and no wild stories from my past from jas, *please*.

As I was thinking about this I had a perusal of the 'Rules' and noticed the following...'We're committed to providing an atmosphere in which constructive and mature dialogue takes place.'

I'm not sure how the Fank and associated blogs fit into that but I decided, at 40, I must be mature-ish, and after a request from Annie and Sunny, I'm willing to give advice on getting a husband. (subject to being able to keep my own for reference.)

[Mind you everyone seems to be getting on so well on their own. Annie B, I've never had a mysterious package on Valentines - not even with such imaginative and useful items, not to mention priceless. see Annie's blog for more details.]

So, my 'agony aunt' doors are open for business...next!