I am afraid that I might be upsetting a few of the bloggers who have kindly supported my posts. Perhaps I am coming across as neglectful or indifferent about other wonderful bloggers. So this post is to ask anyone who thinks I am overlooking them and not being courteous as a blogger to drop me a message to tell me. (lol – I may live to regret it! I am not asking for those messages where you demand that I follow your blog!!!) I am feeling as if I have totally fallen behind with all aspects of blogging due to my trip to Australia. Now, that is not something I worry about too much, because frankly, blogging is supposed to be fun. I am not going to beat myself up too much.
But I can see a considerable number of likes and follows from bloggers I do not recognise at all. So I wanted to say right now that I am a not a great blogger at all, I admit. I like to work on posts, some in response to prompts and some just about putting my own thoughts into words, but I am not in this for numbers or statistics. I don’t have any ambitions whatsoever regarding my blogging or writing in general.
However, I don’t want to appear rude or ungrateful for the support I have received and all of the lovely interaction with other bloggers which has made it so enjoyable. I have been following some bloggers for a long time, mainly because I like them, sometimes I like them more than I like the content of their posts in truth. I also follow a huge number of foodie bloggers because I love seeking out new recipes and I follow travel bloggers because of their beautiful photos and their accounts of places I would love to see for myself one day.
If you are new to Crushed Caramel, I am publishing a mix of posts about my life, family, friends, the man I love (Goldfinch) and the occasional works of fiction or even bad poetry. I try to keep things positive, light-hearted and family friendly.
I have been away in Australia recently (look out for Australia posts in the near future) and I have fallen behind in all aspects of blogging If you have liked or followed my posts in the last few weeks and you think I am being discourteous in not returning the support, please let me know, because I am finding it hard to keep up at the moment. Just say “Oy Caramel” and drop a link to one of your posts or something.
I certainly do not automatically follow everyone who likes or follows my posts. My WP Reader would be a nightmare if I did. And if I can see that you publish twenty posts everyday there is no way I am going to follow you. But I like bloggers who are nice people and I like to see posts that are happy, positive, interesting, fun, creative, thought-provoking, beautiful etc. So if you are one of those lovely types who wants to contribute to a friendly blogging community and who writes posts that make readers feel good about being alive, then oh definitely do drop me a link to your posts.
I completely understand your excitement over seeing your love!
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Thank you John 🙂
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You’re welcome, Mel!
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Glad you both had such a fabulous holiday! Hope you have a lovely weekend ahead 🙂
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Thank you Tom – hope the weekend has been great for you so far 🙂
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Girl, you are one of the sweetest and most pleasant people to read on the Internet, second only to Laura Bailey!
You rock. Live your life and keep on being you.
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Aren’t you gorgeous Angel!!! Thank you so much!
And I quite agree with you Laura Bailey is awesome 🙂
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awww, and I like you a lot too! 😉😛. Don’t worry about that stuff. We will always be here for you (unless you unfollow 😬) Live your life first, write about it second, the worry about the rest when you can!
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Thank you!!! The only site I deliberately un-followed was a site that turned out to be very adult – hmm hmm – if you know what I mean – robbed me of my innocence!!! I have had the shakes ever since.
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I am sorry. I feel youI tend to find opening my email does the same thing. Talk about messing with your mind. According to many an email I am in need of sizing up! Scary. 😳
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I see your point.:)
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I am a professional Michelin standard chef who specialises in fine baking. You should check out my recipe blogs one day……..
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I knew there must be a reason I was following you!
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