The Road to New Isengard

[bunn]

Photo workshop went quite well, I think.  My skills may be rudimentary but they were still comfortably better than anyone present, which I always think is the key factor for skills training.  So I may not have taught them All the Things, but they all learned Things they didn't know, at any rate

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[lx_photos]

American/English LJ is dead, really.
The Russian one is liver than all alives.

[bunn]

Um... Your account looks kind of real, but this comment seems a bit odd. I was going to hit 'spam' but then I thought possibly this comment is from a hijacked account, so just in case a real person is getting comment notifications, I thought I'd reply.

I may be English, but my LJ is very much alive! :-D

[lx_photos]

I find your post in the top of the foreign accounts (non-Cyrillic).
Look, the top post has 4 comments.
Russian top post usually has more than 500..1000 comments.
It's quite different :)
Especially if you know that English spoken readers quantity must be ten times more than the Russian one.
It is maybe a usual thing that one social network is more popular in one country and another one - in another country.
So, I am speak such thing - English LJ is more dead than alive :)

[bunn]

I'm sorry - I don't understand why you are posting here? This is just my personal blog, read largely by my friends and occasionally family. It isn't locked, so it may have appeared briefly linked somewhere within LJ, but if it appeared in a top ten, that has to be a brief algorithm quirk, just on my own friendslist I can see many journals that are far busier than mine. I'm not competing with them, so this doesn't bother me.

But even if mine was the only English-language blog left on Livejournal - why does that matter to you, and why come here to tell me about it?

[puddleshark]

Lovely shots of greenery. You can almost see the ivy growing as you watch...

How are the hounds with disembodied banging noises? Max hates 'em. The guns have been firing out on the Army ranges all this last week - regular distant earth-shaking CRUMP! noises - and Max has been miserable, creeping around with his tail clamped down, giving me reproachful looks...

[bunn]

Well, I can't say they are great with them - I've not had Rosie through a November yet, but Brythen is not a fan of fireworks or thunder. He would definitely sympathise with poor Max

[puddleshark]

Could you have a little pile of sausage or something, and make the 'crump' sound a predictor for amazing food falling from the sky?

Thanks! That's got to be worth a try... Max thoroughly approves of sossidge falling from the sky.