Of Soup and Hairy Men....

I've been having a bit of fun on my blog tonight.

It all started with the flag counter I put up on this blog, where the counter tracks from which country people are visiting from and shows their flag and the number from that flag or country. Its quite nice to see everyone visiting me from all around the world. I then decided I wanted it on my photography blog as well, but because the two blogs (Ambling Rambler and Ambling PHotographer) are linked, the flags were showing the same stats on both blogs.

I then tried a free web counter from histats (www.histats.com) but unfortunately I couldn't get it to work - I wanted total visits, and visits today - a little more complex than a straight counter. I tried a number of ways to no avail - if anyone reading this has any ideas I'll be pleased to hear them.

I then looked at bloggers 'gadgets' and while I found absolutely no counter that worked, I did find a few other things.

You'll see now to the right I have a counter to my birthday (very important date - make sure you keep an eye on this and ship the presents in plenty of time please!!!), but I also have a countdown to Christmas. No doubt I'll come up with other important countdowns as my life evolves.

Also new is a writers 'unblock' tool. You'll see this further down on the right. With every click of the refresh button, new sentences form to help you stop writers block.

Tonight on this tool it's been suggested to me to write about...

'A hairy man praying over a bowl of broth'

'a night in a brothel with a family of immigrants'

'sitting in a field of wet mushrooms'

'Joseph talking to Mary with a wet rag'

'Joseph talking to Mary with a dose of the clap'

'to imagine myself at a great feast with a child on a leash'

Hmmmmmmmm

I'm not sure if these writers unblocks are going to help me with my blogs but I will honestly try and do something with it. They're great visuals though aren't they - they do provoke strong imagery in one's mind. I can SEE the hairy man slurping on his broth. I doubt he would be very refined if he was that hairy. Can hairy men be refined? Can they slurp on broth without getting hair in that soup? Waiter waiter.... there's a.... Hair in my broth!

From broth we go to Brothel. A family of immigrants though - isn't that incest?

And who in their right minds would sit in a field of wet mushrooms? Come to think of - if a mushroom gets wet, don't they start to rot? So not only would you be sitting on wet ones, but on rotten vegetation as well. Why would anyone write something like this?

'The two lovers picnicked in a beautiful golden field, strewn with wet mushrooms, and inhaled the scent of rotten vegetation.' ('Love is in the air' playing in the background)

Onto Joseph with Mary - not only does she have a wet rag, but also a dose of the clap. Charming. I'm not sure I can do romance with this information. More like a major bust up of a relationship, unless Joseph was the culprit for both!

Finally why would one be at a feast with a child on a leash? I'm sure the authorities would be straight onto you and you would be had up for child abuse.

Ok so this writers unblock tool may not be very useful, but it's certainly made me crack up laughing. I think I'll keep it for a while and see what other hilarious things come my way over the next few weeks.

Watch this space...

Cheers
Robyn