Been tidying up my blogroll a bit this morning. I love the word blogroll – depending on my mood, it evokes rather different images in my head. Either something, like the Swiss roll, which you should enjoy with great dollops of homemade strawberry jam and cups of strong tea, or something you need to take to the dunny with you. For non-Australian readers, the dunny is the toilet. (A more detailed definition.) An essential item for the dunny is the dunny roll, or bog roll – toilet paper! (Now you know more about the inner workings of my mind that you might have cared to. Sorry.)
But back to my blogroll. For a while now, I’ve divided it into two – the top listings (if you scroll down and look to the right of this screen) are the blogs of friends and family. I just removed a couple, Craponomy and The Clothes Horse, because they haven’t been updated in ages. There aren’t that many there – not many of the people I know In Real Life blog! Of course, there are a couple of blogs in the list belonging to people I have never met – but I do enjoy reading about your lives.
Below the friends and family blog are the librarians’ blogs. I’ve just added a few recently discovered treasures to it:
The Gypsy Librarian
Letters from Adelaide (another Australian librarian!)
Pegasus Librarian
On a whim, and just for a change, I took three blogs out (Free Range Librarian, librarian.net, and Tame The Web). I guess it also helps to keep the list short. I could add all the librarian blogs I’ve got in Bloglines, but that list is staggeringly long and would be practically meaningless on this page, I suspect. (If you do want to see the great long list, take a look at my Bloglines subscriptions: look under Librarians.) Bloglines makes it very easy to remove and add things to my blogroll, using their Blogroll Wizard (nope, not going to share the image this phrase evokes in my fetid imagination!).
Categories: blogging, procrastination
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Blogroll always remind me of “bogroll”, so you are not the only one. 😉
Sorry about the deleted post… I’m the world’s worst speller. 🙂
Hey! I made the short list! That’s a first for me. 🙂
I must say, the word “blogroll” has always sounded yummy to me, so substantial on the mouth, so wrapped up like in a blanket on a cold, Minnesota winter’s day. Blankets are wonderful when it’s windy and somewhere below freezing and above oh-my-god — I don’t know what that translates to in centigrade.
Now I have new connotations. Thanks a lot. :P.
Good one, Mooiness 🙂
Iris, that’s a new one for me – thanks! I guess I wouldn’t have thought of that because the word I often think of when thinking of being wrapped up snug on a cold Perth day, is doona (the Australian ‘duvet’), or, (a bit of a stretch) swag…
Picture, and comment on swags, here, if you’re interested. I agree with the author – sleeping under the stars is much more fun and pleasurable than sleeping in a tent. Given fine weather, of course. But then again sleeping in a tent if it’s raining isn’t much fun either.