The month of July 2022 in retrospect and a little statistics

What was going on last month, what did I finish, what did I work on and what was read.

Finishing the travel reports, pouring concrete in the workshop, finishing the cabinet for the washstand and of course the blog move at the end of July 2022.

The focus of my Cronhill activities was clearly the completion of the travel reports on the trip to Belgium that I made with my younger son around my birthday in May 2022. On 12 June the first part was published with the beautiful title " Through Wallonia I - The undiscovered beautiful country ", and this was followed in loose succession by parts II, III and IV, which went online on 23 July 2022 with a finale in the French Champagne region. The 4 essays were a lot of work, great fun and I am really proud of the photography I managed to take on the trip and the stories I found. 

blog.cronhill.de

The blog in a new design

In addition, I started an elaborate project at the end of February, which was completed with the final move of the blog to the new website https://blog.cronhill.de in July, on 30 July 2022 to be exact. The reason for the move were two circumstances which I have already described in a little more detail in this post from 23 March: Cronhill's home page did not - in short - reflect my blogging worthily enough. However, the homepage of Cronhill.de should continue to reflect this focus in the format it is now, as the main page of my creative site. So it was clear the blog was moving to a subdomain. In addition, I established a new format within the blog: the state of play reports. A format in which I - finally - work on texts over a longer period of time; and I let the readers participate in this process.

Then I became seriously ill in April and everything was at a standstill for the time being. That is also the reason why there were no March, April, May and June reviews. On 1 May, I started a part-time job as a research assistant at the University of Wuppertal in the 5g.nrw project - so there wasn't much time left for the blog relocation and development project. But - life is a constant work in progress. And so on 30.07.2022 at 12:46 a.m. with the instruction

RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ https://blog.cronhill.de/blog/$1 [R=301,NC,L]

the permanent 301 redirection to the new page was set up.

You can now find the blog at blog.cronhill.de. I still have to take care of the RSS feed, I think, and there are some other things that are still in trouble, but there will be time for that another day.

Besides that, I did many other things in July - besides my two jobs. I finally finished the substructure for my sink and washbasin in the workshop. Then I started building the mould for the washbasin, which I really wanted to cast in concrete. The casting took place on Saturday, 30. 7. 2022, the casting consumed three 25kg bags of screed concrete, 7.5 litres of water and about 450ml of concrete plasticiser - it should weigh about 80kg when finished and is 70cm deep and 120cm wide and 7cm thick. I've already stripped it but haven't turned it around yet, so don't know how the surface has turned out.

Also worked in the garden, we have a rain barrel drain that comes straight out of a wall, always drips a bit, straight onto the grass path. I laid some paving stones there and put a bowl of gravel there for the bees and wasps, the dripping water collects in it.

Then I made another far-reaching creative decision, I got a 30%-off-an-article-of-your-choice voucher from Boesner and exchanged it for 21 sqm of the finest Belgian linen. Let's see what comes of it.

I still haven't worked on the "about me" page. Sigh.

Thank you!

Thank you, dear readers, for taking the time to read my stories again this month.

The first part of my essay on quotes in James Bond films went through the roof and I just don't know why.

Here are the TOP 25 of the last month, each with page views.

  1. 339 Teil I - Das Jack-London-Zitat im neuen Bond - Einführung
  2. 310 Comment j'archive les photos
  3. 203 Fotografie
  4. 177 Durch die Wallonie II
  5. 174 Kontakt
  6. 164 Durch die Wallonie III
  7. 154 Die deutsche Suchergebnisseite
  8. 153 The english search results
  9. 148 Durch die Wallonie I - Brüssel
  10. 134 Résultats de recherche
  11. 133 Durch die Wallonie IV - Champagne 
  12. 122 Blog (en)
  13. 110 Alphabet en Images - Ein Kinderbuch
  14. 110 Blog goes Subdomain und Editionen
  15. 109 Les monstres de Barnum
  16. 108 Teil II - Alfred Lord Tennysons Zitat in Skyfall
  17. 105 Malerei
  18. 103 Spätsommerfreuden mit dem Rad
  19. 101 Freiheit, Gleichheit, Brüderlichkeit
  20. 99  Teil III - Lichterloh brennen wie Jack London - James Bond hat keine Zeit zu sterben
  21. 95  Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
  22. 94  Madeleine-Amélie Franc-Nohain
  23. 91 Aquarellpapier richtig auf Holz aufziehen
  24. 91 Blog (fr)
  25. 89 Über mich

Today I saw the desk where Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron sat when they extended the Franco-German friendship treaty. I'm always happy to be writing a trilingual blog. There is also a lot of other news that I will report more about soon.

tl, dr;

Some statistics aroung the website - some stories from July.

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