Daleks or blogging is sometimes more than just reading.

Bear with me but I will get to the point, the Dr.Who magazine recently gave away with an issue 25/28mm plastic daleks (approx 16 per issue I believe) and I said to myself I'll get some of them because they work out really cheap and it may be an avenue I will go down and basically all wargamers are hoarders. Could I find any, could I feck, even stopped a newsagent that delivers to my site and asked him to see what he could do (nothing, so he gets constantly searched now).

Anyway while commenting on the excellent blog Paul's Bods http://paulsbods.blogspot.com/ I mentioned that myself and Ray from Don't throw a 1 http://onelover-ray.blogspot.com/ were having difficulty finding some and Paul says I have spare you can have them, he had mentioned about some robots I had and how he would convert them amd lo and behold he sends me Daleks from Germany (his sister had sent them to him from the UK) and I sent him 28mm robots and the blogging world is a smaller place. (still haven't given Ray his share until he coughs up some postage LOL)

Paul's Daleks now in my possesion.

The first blog I ever followed is Vampifan's World of the Undead http://vampifansworldoftheundead.blogspot.com/ and recently he published that he had an article in the magazine Dadi &Piombo about 28mm zombie wargaming and the post can be seen here http://vampifansworldoftheundead.blogspot.com/2011/02/vampifans-views-07.html and is richly deserved, anyway he got some spare copies and if you asked for one he would post it to you free of charge, I believe I responded too late but no he had a spare one (which he was going to keep for himself as a spare as he had already given away the the 5 free ones he wanted to but no and an email later it should be in the post today or tomorrow, so I get a magazine that I read and like at no expense, the blogging world at it's best.(I owe you one Vampifan)

The magazine in question.

A couple of other mentions are about Lee from http://bigleesminipaintingblog.blogspot.com/ who we now meet at shows and he comes to wargames and is part of the Reject's now and obviously the virtual unlimited lifetime supply of apple gumdrops and other items I have won from The Happy Whisk and her quiz's at  http://thehappywhisk.blogspot.com/

Happy Fifth Anniversary TransGriot!

Five years ago at midnight on January 1, 2006 I wrote and published my first post on TransGriot.    At that time I hadn't really figured out my mission was, how frequently I was going to update it, or even found my blogging and writing voice, but I eventually wrote 124 posts that year.

It wasn't until a year later that I put the hit counter on the blog and discovered that I was getting 400 hits a day from people around the world who were reading it.

TransGriot has evolved into a blog in which my mission is to talk about trans issues from an African American perspective, give voice to my African descended cousins across the African diaspora, document our history, serve as a platform for me to vent about the issues of the day inside and outside the TBILG community, and showcase at times my creative writing skills.  

And along the way I've been nominated for and won a few blog awards because y'all like me..


As of today I average about 3000 hits per day, just came off a year in which I wrote over 1200 posts, surpassed the 1.5 million hit mark, the 2500 and 3000 post marks, finally won a Black Weblog Award and I'm closing in on 2 million hits.  But I couldn't or wouldn't have this success without you loyal readers who surf over here to read my posts in the first place.

Thank you for being a major component to the blog's success and from contributing from time to time to help keep this place surviving and thriving, suggesting post ideas, and helping me to build a highly respected blog not just in the Transosphere, but across the blogosphere as well.

Looking forward to more great things this year and in the future.
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