Yesterday, blogging pal Elke wrote in protest against another uncalled for ‘improvement’ to our blogging and reading experience, courtesy of WordPress. That particular one hasn’t hit me yet, but another annoyance has, which I guess isn’t precisely WP’s fault. I’m now getting a dozen or more new followers a day. Allegedly. They virtually all have gmail accounts, and not one of them has ever ‘liked’ or commented on any of my posts, so I guess these individuals are utterly unaware they have subscribed to my blog. But I just thought you might like to know that as of this morning, I apparently have another new follower. None other than Elon Musk….
From Pyrenees to Pennines 
Hahaha
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He gets everywhere. I don’t want him in MY house.
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He hasn’t followed mine, which is reassuring.
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…. yet.
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Lucky or what? I’m keeping my head down xx
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You do that. It’s too late for me … xx
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aaaagh!
I can’t ‘like’ that!
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Dead right you can’t.
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Impressive
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Ah yes, I too click on the read button instead of view post as they have put it near the top. It’s annoying. But no EM as yet…
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Your time may come …
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wow, Elon Musk 😂
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Not happy. Even though it’s unlikely to be true.
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Well I wouldn’t boast about that!
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I’m not boasting. I’m mortified.
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Oh no!
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Oh yes!
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I haven’t had that in a while. maybe I should check spam. I am getting what seems like comments that are AI generated though
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This wasn’t in spam. Just a WP comment thst EM and AN Other were new subsribers. My comments all seem to be from genuine followers. So far …
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The gmail ones have gone from mine. I am getting lots of weird stuff though
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I’ve had a regular majority China readership, since June. It makes me very wary.
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Thankfully no Elon, but my stats went through the roof for several months. They seem to have calmed down now. I rarely look at them but this was so ridiculous I checked to see where they were coming from and, like Michael, it’s all about China.
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Wow, that is weird!
I think my blog has been scraped this week, huge views and all from China. We live in a strange world.
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