Monday is one of those days when there is no time for Bonkers at all, a few
minutes at best so I used them today to satisfy my own long standing curiosity. How many words
have been expended on exposing Council fibs? The job took rather longer than
expected; counting the lot in one go had the program complaining that there was
not enough memory. Presumably the counter has its limits because the PC has 96
gigabytes installed. But breaking it up into years was more useful and produced this graph.
I seem to have gone a bit mad in 2010 and the later years show what might be
called the Mick Barnbrook and Covid effects. Only blogs are included, not the
occasional essays on other subjects. To be pedantic, captions under photos are
excluded too, but not the blogs about the Court litigant who now flips to any
political party fool enough to have her and who believes that quoting Judges is
criminal harassment.
As their inclusion implies, everything still exists, it is just that only
I can see it; unless I decide to flick a switch!
With more than three million words under the belt and a stack of worn out keyboards
awaiting a trip to Foot’s Cray, I hope you will allow me the rest of the day off.
3,375,024 words on blogs alone.
For comparison, 3,375,024 is three times as many as in all eight Harry Potter novels, four times William Shakespeare’s output and nearly five times as many as in The Holy Bible.