warm strepsil, anyone?

Moment of amusement in discovering someone arrived on blog by searching for 'warm strepsil'.  I'm sure I've mentioned Strepsils before, but not convinced I specified the temperature.

Feeling very weary - life is busy and the tiredness is biting quite badly.  Ugh.

looking for something deeper?

Sometimes I find it interesting to see what search terms bring readers to my blog.  I get the strange and the amusing, which I've covered elsewhere - in this post I express astonishment over the words 'help I am desperate for the loo', and writing an entry called 'your wife is a big hippo' went on to prove that occasionally people do type 'your wife is a big hippo' into Google.

I also get a lot of hits on my post 'Easter words' - it stays firmly in my most popular post at all times - because people type in 'words that describe Easter' fairly frequently (more so at this time of year, but not exclusively).  I'm not sure if the post really gives them what they want, but at least its not one I mind people coming across.

But the all time biggies are those mixed up with my title, particularly my old title 'looking for something deeper' - now shortened of course to 'looking deeper', which has a slightly different slant but seems to fit better, now.  The change of title has not lessened the search traffic, however. 

So I can tell you that many people do type 'looking for something' into the search boxes, and I find this somewhat poignant.  (Unless of course they accidentally press enter before they have finished their sentence!)  There are variations: I do get people arriving who have typed in 'looking for something deeper' - I suppose they could be looking for this blog but what about those who type 'looking for something I don't know what' or 'help I need something deeper'?

It goes to show that people do use the blank box to express something other than merely wanting to know which car to buy or finding out about someone or something.

I can only pray that when someone types what could be interpreted as a plea and arrives here, in my tiny patch on the Internet, they find something - anything - that might encourage them, even if only a small way.

this week on Google

"rebuilding a bicycle"

Alas, I get this one a lot. However, my rebuilding the bicycle entry is purely metaphorical. I'm certainly not what they're looking for - no bicycle instructions here, guys.

"can rabbits eat slugs"

Since I mention slugs and rabbits in the same entry, the Googler was led here. But frankly, no, they don't.

You need to get yourself a hedgehog, dude.

Related post: Er

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If you've got a statistics tracker on your blog, you can see how people got to your page - this can be rather entertaining when it comes to what people type into Google. Twice someone has typed in 'your wife is a big hippo' and got directed to my entry of that title. But what really drove me to comment on it here was the discovery that somebody typed 'help am in desperate need of the loo' (!!)

Was this some poor soul at work unable to get to the facilities and desperately sending this desire into the internet ?! (Amusingly, they got directed to my blog - had I expressed the same need in the entry in question?)

Anyway, yes, I am procrastinating. I am unpacking and washing and unpacking and washing.