24/08/2009 by Steve Tierney.

What Did I Do?
 
I follow John Elworthy on Twitter as I rather enjoy his occasional quips and anecdotes there.  After returning from my holiday I was catching up on my email, blog-reading and correspondence when I happened across his latest tweet:-

“Thank God, the X Factor is back. Not so happy Steve Tierney is back from holiday though. But Norwich won, so 2 out of 3 !”

I’m not quite sure whether to be offended or honoured to be one of Mr. Elworthy’s three things of note at that point in time (albeit the one that ruins his twitter-mood.) I am a little nonplussed though.  What have I done to merit such extravagant positioning?  I’m aware we’ve had a mild joust over the past couple of months between blog and newspaper, but I had thought it was all rather good-natured. Perhaps John is joking in his tweet?  I’d feel better about it if there were a smiley    or something.  I wouldn’t want to think I had somehow offended anybody.  I think I’d rather miss his comments if he were away.  Ah well.  Sticks & stones and all that.

UPDATE (25th August)

All’s well that ends well.  Apparently John Elworthy wasn’t being mean about me after all. His most recent tweet…

And just in case anyone needs re-assuring, I happen to believe Steve Tierney is the best thing to happen to local politics in years.  I’m not sure the Conservative Party will necessarily end up thinking so, but how refreshing to hear someone who actually believes something.  He’s wrong on the Queens Hotel, Wisbech, though - and common decency says the hostel must go ahead. But there are areas upon which we agree.

Thanks for that Mr. Elworthy.  We may disagree on issues, but I wouldn’t want to have actually upset anybody.   And I very much appreciate your (far too generous) comments.

Statistics
I’m pleased to say that my unique visitors (the number of different people who visit my blog) has stayed fairly steady.  Not bad given that I was away and didn’t get to post last week!  I still sit comfortably somewhere between 16,000 and 20,000 monthly visitors based on the combined weekly stats for August so far!  Hopefully, the additional exposure from winning the Total Politics Blog Award will pull in more regular readers!  It’s all very exciting.  Thanks - everyone!

             This Blog

5th In the United Kingdom 

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21/08/2009 by Steve Tierney.

This from Iain Dale’s list of British Blog winners:-

Top 10 British Councillor Blogs

1 (1) Luke Akehurst LA
2 Bickerstaffe Record LA
3 Richard Willis CO
4 (3) Paul Scully CO
5 Steve Tierney CO
6 (5) Bob Piper LA
7 (4) James Cleverly AM CO
8 (29) Gwilym Euros Roberts NA
9 Stuart Syvret NA
10 (26) Dave Luckett CO

Fifth in Britain is pretty exciting. 

Thank you so much to everybody who voted!

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