• Most of you have hear of the bull in a china shop but have you ever heard of a bull in the bathroom?

    It all started when I retuned home after a three month stay in the US to find my house extraordinarily dusty and messy. Something had to be done , I thought so we employed Mr G. to deep clean the house.

    His brief was to clean every nook and cranny with a toothbrush.

    Mr G took his job very seriously and for several months was busy from 9 am to 5 pm prying out the dust. Considering that we have a lot of carved antique furniture and several walls of peeling paint , there was a lot of dust to be nudged out.

    In a way this became counter productive because all the dust that was pushed out settled on more visible spaces . In other words the house became more dusty!

    So we changed his job to polish the brass instead. Once again we have kilos of brass artefacts which had turned black with age.

    Mr G scrubbed and scrubbed till all that was left to scrub was the bull: a huge 35 kg Bull of Shiva that was a present for my 35th birthday.

    Does that explain how I have a bull in my bathroom?

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  • Today I realised that blogging is a mug’s game.

    Image for revealing identity and improving blog traffic

    OR

    You could call me a slow learner.

    After almost

    10 years of blogging,

    around 7 years of being a member of Blogadda,

    about 5 years of being a part of Indiblogger,

    3 years of participating in the #A to Z Challenge ,

    several years of linking up with #SkywatchFriday and #WriteTribe

    and around

    2 months of linking up with #UltimateBlogChallenge,

    I find that the figures are dismal.

    I have only 137 subscribers on WordPress, 112 on Twitter and a handful on Facebook.

    My best views so far have been 205 on a single day way back in November 2015 and the post that was visited most that day was my ABOUT page.

    My last effort of generating more traffic was participating in the recently concluded month long #A to Z Challenge in April. Here too the statistics were not really worth the effort.

    So I put out a question to the Universe and only ONE blogger responded with a positive feedback on what I should do to improve my blog ergo generate more interest and traffic.

    Firstly, she told me not to bother about the numbers but to just write from the heart. That makes good sense.

    But what she told me next is something that has been bothering me for a while – personalisation.

    Will an identity reveal affect blog traffic?

    [Tweet “Should I really come out of my shell and share more about myself in terms of images and identity?”]

    Like many bloggers, my blog is often my sounding board – a place where I share my doubts, anxieties and joys. Often when I read similar posts on other blogs I often wonder OMG what a whiner! Is anybody out there really interested in listening to your tales of woe? Is everybody’s life truly a soap opera? Besides, my life is not that chaotic or tragic or exciting. I am just a normal, every day person leading a normal every day life. So are people really interested in knowing the face behind the words? Will it really make a difference if I come out of my shell?

    Do let me know your thoughts on this.

    Does sharing more information about yourself really affect your blog traffic?

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