Richard Baum

An exciting new feature was added to the blog recently, so now I can see how many hits I get. I had imagined it was about three per day, with two of them being me and the other being someone like my mum. It turns out though that I am getting loads, which is brilliant. In fact, so far in November I have 1,337 unique visits, as well as 4,711 for the last bit of October when the hit-counter was installed.

Now, I know that if I visit every day for a month this counts as 30 visits, not one visit. But even if every one of those 6,000 people visited every single day, that’s still 200 readers. And I have no idea who any of them are!

So please do get in touch! The point of this blog is to get us in touch with one another to talk about the issues in St Mary’s ward, Prestwich and the wider world. So, whilst the technical people work on a “comments” function for this site, please email me and get in touch! I’d be delighted to hear from anyone, even if it’s just to say “hello.” And if you’ve got a question or something to discuss, all the better.

It’s very heartening to have had 6,000 hits in a few weeks, but I need to know who you all are so that I can better represent you. And after all, that’s the point of everything I write in the long run! Your ideas will help me serve St Mary’s better, help the blog get better, and do what it is that I wanted to do in the first place - talk with people about how to make things better.

So please do get in touch.

And, in the spirit of a web page devoted to the minutiae of my life, I will of course keep you updated with the hits figures as they get updated!

Rick