http://duckingforapples.blogspot.com
Description of site:
Daily musings of Ally, a 30 something year old self-employed IT consultant from North Wales.
Appearance:
A recurring appley theme – many half eaten apple pictures. I’m sure there must be some significance to Ally although I can’t quite tell what it is apart from she likes the countryside, garden and outdoor lifestyle. Perhaps she likes eating apples too?
Organisation:
Spartan. Neat layout. Very few images in the posts, but this is compensated for by the high quality of writing.
Navigation and Functionality:
Sidebar links and blog archive.
Advertising:
None.
Comments:
This is a top blog - no mistakes about it. The first place I headed on my whistle-stop tour of ducking for apples was the first post, right back in July 2004. It is a true veteran of a blog – long-lived, hard working and dependable with a few interesting tales to tell. In her very first post Ally introduces the ‘crew’ – all those people likely to crop up in her adventures in the coming months, which is a marvellous stroke of foresight. The cast includes a Polish lodger, Polish lodger’s ex girlfriend, new Polish lodger, invisible lodger, Polish lodger’s ex-girlfriend’s cousin and several other intriguing characters. After all this Cluedo like build up I was absolutely itching to see what lurked in the depths of the archive. I wasn't disappointed.
Ally has written some absolutely side-splittingly funny posts. Most of them aren’t about subjects that are funny in themselves, but the way she interjects punchy comments, nicknames, side swipes and double entendre is hilarious. There are too many quality entries to single out any one in particular, but I like those where she recounts funny conversations she’s had earlier in the day. Ally has a real gift for holding the reader’s attention and I can’t recommend this blog highly enough.
Rating:
9/10 – the blog’s bollocks!
Reviewer:
Tom
Description of site:
Daily musings of Ally, a 30 something year old self-employed IT consultant from North Wales.
Appearance:
A recurring appley theme – many half eaten apple pictures. I’m sure there must be some significance to Ally although I can’t quite tell what it is apart from she likes the countryside, garden and outdoor lifestyle. Perhaps she likes eating apples too?
Organisation:
Spartan. Neat layout. Very few images in the posts, but this is compensated for by the high quality of writing.
Navigation and Functionality:
Sidebar links and blog archive.
Advertising:
None.
Comments:
This is a top blog - no mistakes about it. The first place I headed on my whistle-stop tour of ducking for apples was the first post, right back in July 2004. It is a true veteran of a blog – long-lived, hard working and dependable with a few interesting tales to tell. In her very first post Ally introduces the ‘crew’ – all those people likely to crop up in her adventures in the coming months, which is a marvellous stroke of foresight. The cast includes a Polish lodger, Polish lodger’s ex girlfriend, new Polish lodger, invisible lodger, Polish lodger’s ex-girlfriend’s cousin and several other intriguing characters. After all this Cluedo like build up I was absolutely itching to see what lurked in the depths of the archive. I wasn't disappointed.
Ally has written some absolutely side-splittingly funny posts. Most of them aren’t about subjects that are funny in themselves, but the way she interjects punchy comments, nicknames, side swipes and double entendre is hilarious. There are too many quality entries to single out any one in particular, but I like those where she recounts funny conversations she’s had earlier in the day. Ally has a real gift for holding the reader’s attention and I can’t recommend this blog highly enough.
Rating:
9/10 – the blog’s bollocks!
Reviewer:
Tom
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