So i have noticed that, UK aside, the countries that view my blog the most are Ukraine and then, with half as many views, Russia. Hello there, cheers for reading. At first i thought maybe a few people had stumbled on it by chance and enjoyed it and kept reading new posts, then i considered that maybe i just strike a chord with Eastern Europe, after all, i loved it when i was there, maybe rakija and bureks indelibly marked me for Eastern European entertainment.
What was especially strange was that no Australians - an anglophonic people - had viewed the blog (if you are Australian and are retrospectively reading this blog: hello, i'm Alex, i hope you find something here that you can enjoy. Don't believe me that there are enjoyable things? Just ask Ukraine!). Maybe the weather in Oz is just too nice to waste scouring the internet. Maybe that wizard fella won't let you use the internet and forces you into barbecues, surfing, beach-parties and drinking tinnies around a campfire at sunset. Maybe in one sentence i managed to offend most Australians with my own national stereotype and, possibly worse, have you confused with a fictional alternative to Kansas.
But maybe it is down to timing. Maybe i just post at a certain time of day that means people in Eastern Europe are the ones idly (or not idly - other levels of the passivity/activity spectrum are available) trawling the internet for odd thoughts on baths and grass or some confused poetry, rather than anglophone America or Australia who are busy working or sleeping respectively.
Well whoever is reading this, wherever you're from, i just hope you enjoy it. Maybe you could even let me know if you are Ukrainian and feel i have unwittingly tapped into your national psyche or Australian and just don't have time to read anything further than this post because there is a crazed, but slightly magical, despot inside your emerald city pursuing you and your dangerous blog-reading ways.
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