It always seems a bit introspective, reflecting on your own blog. But that is one way to learn. I start with my own favourites from the 165 posts that appeared on this blog in 2020.

My favourite photo posts of 2020

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• Middle of the pier – Southport pier
• Water everywhere – Beach at Southport
• Fox squirrel – in Houston
• Silver Y – difficult moth in the back garden
• Red Sky – North Devon sunset
• Sand, sea and sky – Southport beach again

My favourite wordy posts of 2020

• So That’s It (Jan) – a little rant from the pre-covid time when we just obsessed about Brexit.
• God and good (Jan) – insights about God from a book given by friend Chris Lyons
• When the dog looks (Feb) – are we really so different from animals?
• Travelling home as things close down (Mar) – our early experience of covid
• Ethics reduced to economics (Dec) – wise words on the modern world from Jonathan Sacks
• Bittersweet chess (Nov) – early experience as a chess player

Most viewed in 2020

WordPress stats give the top 5 most viewed posts in 2020. This appears to be a strange selection, until you realise that mostly these will be hits from search engines, of subjects not widely covered on the web.

• Lizards in the Houston Garden (Mar 2020)
• Hips and Haws (Oct 2016)
• Green Orb-Weaver Spider (July 2017)
• Enantiodromia (Jan 2020)
• Mint moth (Aug 2017)

Most liked (4 years)

The ‘most liked’ top 5 covers likes over the lifetime of this blog. What most surprised me was the top one, a recent post on psychology and astrology models – which is somewhat peripheral to the main thrusts of this blog.

• Psychology and Astrology Models (Nov 2020)
• Beach scene (Feb 2019)
• Mint moth (Aug 2017)
• Blue Herons (Apr 2018)
• When the dog looks (Feb 2020)

I note that my preoccupation with a New Renaissance and rantings on politics/economics/science do not figure in either of these lists!

Maybe I should ask myself the question: should I have a number of different blogs, rather than this single eclectic blog?