That last post was my 7,000th blog post in my 10th blogging year. Oddly, even with the interruption of “real life” (parental ageing) in recent years the regularity of blogs hasn’t let up. I guess visiting 20 pubs a week helps avoid the risk of writers block.
844 posts last year, just a series of diary entries with a pub visit and a rummage around an unsung UK town, with the odd bit of tourism and weird stuff during lockdown.
Despite COVID, the conclusion to the quest to complete the Beer Guide that dominated the diary, and a general sense that blogging is past its peak, visitor numbers have been oddly consistent.
I’ve never wanted to take adverts on the site; who knows what evils would pop up while you were trying to look at pics of mobility scooters in Mansfield ?
Genuinely, the joy is in the writing, and the comments, and the lovely world map showing where folk are reading. What IS that grey blob to the right of Greenland, and can someone please visit it and click ?
I’m not convinced that all these foreign views are genuine. If there’s a welcoming committee for me in the Northern Mariana Islands I’ll know it’s real.
A decade in, one post dominates the viewing numbers.
A 2017 post about the Grandfather clock in Piercebridge that stopped, dead, has topped 11,000 views, nearly all of them referred by a South Korean educational website. I never dreamed of being use to South Korean schoolchildren.
The post on Slalom Lager in Workington was also inexplicably popular in 2024. Why ?
For my special project in 2025, I’m going to do some posts recommending trails round the best pubs in a 100 or so towns. I’m sure NO-ONE has done that sort of thing ever before.
retiredmartin 
“Just a series of diary entries with a pub visit and a rummage around an unsung UK town” makes it always such an entertaining read. Long may it continue.
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A trip to a new pub in Penkridge will always be more interesting that a return visit to the Peveril of the Peak, Paul !
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Your ambition now should be being referred to on a North Korean educational website. Perhaps a visit to the Taedonggang Beer Factory to see the old Ushers kit would do it?
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I just started to read the blog towards the back end of last year, thoroughly enjoy and it’s always one of my first sites to when I pick up a device.
It’s inspired me to start my own blog of pub visits, crawls and campervan trips. Blatant plug, https://thekrausen.blogspot.com/
Just finding my feet with it and I can’t envisage keeping it up for 10 years like yourself!
Keep it up, thank you.
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And you keep it up too, Stu. Short and regular works for me. Any advice on free/cheap campervan stops like Lytham welcome here.
https://thekrausen.blogspot.com/
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I really enjoy your blog about your various pub experiences and the unsung towns. I look through your blog when I’m planning to visit somewhere.
Charlie
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Thanks a lot Charlie.
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Having been to far fewer pubs than you, I derive great satisfaction when you post about one I’ve actually been to.
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Me too Bill, especially when it’s one that I’d forgotten about. Which happens quite often.
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Congratulations Martin on reaching such a mammoth total of 7,000 blog posts in 10 years! That rather puts my all-time total of 1,800 over 15 years into perspective. I really don’t know how you find the time to, not only visit 20 pubs per week, but knock out a post for every one of them, as well.
The great thing about your blog is there’s always something different, and interesting, even if it has nothing to do with pubs and beer.
I can perhaps understand your reluctance to monetise your blog, but certainly with Google, no effort is required on the part of the site owner. Think of what you could be drawing in with that number of readers, you could probably RETIRE!!
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I’ll never retire !
Thanks Paul, you’re very generous. It’s the personal touch I love about your blog.
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Long standing reader, lurker and every now and again commenter here (Raymondo, but can never find my WordPress log in or make it work) – all power to your elbow(s) a fabulous blog!
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Thank you !
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I still haven’t started that promised series of posts about the the best pubs in a town, unless you count Tbilisi.
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