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The coronavirus and the lockdown has reduced commuting by rail into a real minority pursuit. When I see the absolute dingbats and actual nazis who are still on Facebook and Instagram, and yet they go after someone who only brings happiness and wisdom, I despair.Ī few weeks ago I was taking one of my rare trips into work in Manchester and this sleek, long, clean modern and quiet new train arrived grandly into my local terminus, Rose Hill. I've written to Instagram expressing my displeasure. I checked in with a mate of his that all was well, only to learn his account has been suspended. And obviously what he's done makes him a public figure of sorts.īut last week I noticed that he'd disappeared off Insta. I obviously know who he is, and he was around and about in the 80s with some kids I knew from Sheffield who'd moved to Manchester. Possibly his last post was a call to arms on self-preservation - just turn up, he said, amongst many other things, fight the demons. My youngest son Elliot is inspired by all of the above. But it's his homespun advice and his personal wellbeing journey that has made him the first person to go to on his Instragram lately. What he has done with Volta, Refuge, Freight Island and Hatch has been game changing for the city. One of the most prolific punters-out of all those nuggets of goodness has been Luke Unabomber, one of the heroes of Manchester's music scene and a proper food innovator as well. It's not the place for self-defeating arguments, or pointless sharing of angry memes, but generally it's for nice things and cultural gems. I'm fairly new to Instagram, and as I've said before it's been a comfortable balm during this lockdown year. All Those Things That Seemed So Important.I'll try and get through them, as I know what I need to say. So here are the subjects I didn't get round to writing a blog on. And the outrage of Luke Unabomber and Instagram. There were also some events to comment on, the small matter of a US election, the scrapping of Pacers and a few media and events things I was doing. My excuse for not getting round to all of them was some are linked to a writing project that I'm not ready to spill just yet and that in turn has also meant I haven't read many books this month. I would have been disappointed if my biggest draw was Blackburn Rovers. The most visited individual post was the one on Stockport and the planning issues coming down on us all soon. Once I factor that out, there's been a steady flow of traffic. I had a spam attack from overseas and a load of duff backlink attempts, but that was later in the month. There doesn't seem to be a particular reason for this. It turned out I had a massive spike of thousands of visitors on the 2nd of October, when I was completely off the grid up a mountain.
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At first I was shocked to discover I had more visitors in October when I blogged just four times. Secondly, I wondered if it would make a difference to my visitor numbers. Although I blogged every day, I'm afraid I went a little bit off piste and didn't do very well on tackling the list. When we were locked down at the start of November and I decided to blog every day for a month, I drew up a bit of a list of likely topics.
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