Tuesday, 17 January 2012

A Quarter of a Million Hits (250,000).....

....deepest thanks to all readers and commenter's!



Yesterday was a disaster, Area Manager turned up again and I had to go to Bluewater (large shopping centre in Kent) to check out a contract to try and find jobs for the boys before the end of the year when the site could be finally closed and sold.....

......didn't get back until late (brought Ray back a McDonalds and found him shouting at the computer at pictures he'd taken off models for his blog and painting challenge, cursing the sun, bad lighting and his camera...)


Lord Lichfield at work....


The face of a madman.....

So I spent the rest of the day trying to calm him down......never thanked me though for the McDonalds!


77 comments:

  1. The way you're going it can't be long before you reach one million hits. Congrats, Fran!

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  2. Well done mate. Keep up the good work.

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  3. A Quarter of a Million Hits, and you are still alive.
    Are you the one the Elders speak of ?
    Are you The Chosen One ?
    Congrats Lurker !
    ;-)

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  4. Nice one Fran, that's a mighty big number! I say who is that handsome chap in the pics?????

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  5. Weldone on the numbers, something to be proud of that.

    Do you guye, er... ever work? LOL

    Ian

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  6. Good to see you all busy and eating healthy. Well done on the hit count.

    Onward to a million!

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  7. Just as Ian said. Do you guys really work? Anyway, congrats Fran.

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  8. Huge congrats on this, very well done :)))

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  9. A happy 250K more to ya, partner.

    Brian

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  10. well done Fran, keep the giggles coming

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  11. Nice one Angry, well done.
    Loved the shot of Ray in front of the console with all the coloured buttons (cant help wonder what they do?) - reminded me of a Billy Connolly sketch when he's skitting Reagan for having the button for the bomb on his desk, and Billy wouldnt even give his ol' man (who I guess is about same age as Reagan) the control for the telly... ;-)

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  12. Nice one Fran well done. Good to see Ray hard at work!

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  13. Epic milestone Fran, and one well deserved!

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  14. Miniatures and McDonalds. Sounds like a good day. lol

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  15. 250K, that's insane. Nice to see Ray so relaxed with all those screens and buttons, would drive me mad probably

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  16. Woah that's an insane amount of hits. Great work, man!

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  17. So that's where you were. I was starting to worry about you ya know. I hope that site doesn't get closed down. More people without jobs and that's sad. And look at Ray, painting at work, and you brought him food. He owe's you Angry. And finally, congratulations on 250,000!! Onward to half a million!

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  18. Next stop...half a million! Congrats!

    Maybe your friend was in the mood for Burger King and not McDonalds...hence the ungratefulness!

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  19. Madmen have such sad manners.

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  20. Congats on a quarter of a million hits, and I love the cat photo - that's quite a face on that kitty!

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  21. Wow 250,000 that a ton, congrats and never even thanked you, how rude..haha

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  22. That's incredible Fran. Congratulations.

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  23. Congrats a well deserved milestone.

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  24. big congrats, Lurk!
    And loving the angry kitty :) At least on the pic :)

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  25. Congratulations! 250K and not long to a million. Great picture of the cat. Sounds like Ray has it rough, there. :)

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  26. Nice work. It's a great blog.
    I use doughnuts instead of McDonald's to motivate my staff.

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  27. Congrats on the big quarter mil! :D

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  28. And well deserved! Best, Dean

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  29. Congrats! Hope I can get that high too.

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  30. Congrats on the 250K hits. You deserve it. It is a great blog.

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  31. Congrats on all the page views there :) That guy looks insaneeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

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  32. Congratulations, Fran; you are a bit of History...

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  33. lmfao hahaha busted. ray looks so focused. and a lil quick trick i like doing while taking photos of landscapes and shit(not literal shit) but mess around with the camera ligthing options, could quite possibly do something cool.

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  34. I curse the sun everyday. Congrats on the 250,000!

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  35. congratulations man! That's amazing!

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  36. Is Ray an air traffic controller? Poor, poor airplanes.

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  37. You are a wargaming rock star.

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  38. Congratulations, that's a huge number!

    Following you now, love the blog!

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  39. Congratulations! That's a lot of hits.

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  40. I have to say I really like this blog love the stories! I'm sure deep down ray is glad you brought him mcdonalds lol

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  41. Congratulations! 250k hits is amazing.

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  42. A collared shirt and sweater combo definitely screams "military strategist extraordinaire" doesn't it?

    Congrats on the quarter million. May the next 250k come twice as fast.

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  43. Congrats! The hit counter shows us, what we know - it's a great blog!
    Regards
    Lonewolf

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  44. Damn, that's a lot of views. And I'm glad to see that you guys do about as much at work as I do.

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  45. Congratulations and not surprised so many view your great blog!

    Christopher

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  46. Fran's got a confession to make, me thinks. He didn't buy the McDonald's!!(Shock, Horror, I know!!!)
    Our area manager did,, all he did was carry it in the car back from Bluewater!!

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  47. congrats to your views! and more to come, geat post :D

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  48. Congrats on reaching such a milestone. Keep on blogging as it's always a great read.

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  49. My congratulations on a truly remarkable achievement; 250,000 hits is just outstanding! In fact your blog it has got so big I can't open it at work! Still I was just desperate to get home and add my comment to the many other well wishers. Well done that man.

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  50. LOL at the cat pic. Well said, catty, well said.

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  51. congrats on the quarter million....

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  52. Brilliant! Well done so far mate...Still following!

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  53. Well done that man! That will soon be half a million.

    Sorry to be pedantic Ray but Angry did say he 'brought' a Mackies not 'bought' one.

    Regards,
    Matt

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  54. Amazing that you are a quarter of the way to a million! You made me hungry by talking about McDonalds :P

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  55. Oioi! Congrats! Also, lol mcdonalds

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  56. This is a great post. Love the pictureof Ray, hard at work. And major congrats on the site hits. Well done.

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  57. Congratulations! Just imagine if you earned a pound for every hit...

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  58. UNGRATEFUL RAY

    That second picture of him made me lol

    And that cat picture did, too. Ray needs to be on his own motivational poster.

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  59. I always thought that Ray was bald. Pic of his is cute.

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  60. Congrats!
    all the screens and the grey asphalt out the window makes me think of an air-traffic control tower... and the planes that will crash as the minis get the attention ;)

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  61. Give Ungrateful Ray a hug and a Whopper with cheese. You're right, though, he does look a might insane. Better make that two Burger King whoppers with cheese.

    By the way, dude....Big Congrats on all those hits. I'm jealous!

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  62. Well done Lurker! I bow before your blogging prowess!!!!

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  63. Bloody Hell the great. Congrats mate.

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  64. Congratulations on another amazing milestone!

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    1. well done sir! A much deserved milestone! Keep going a million is getting closer....

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  65. As it was said before: Rock*!
    I hope youre site won't be closed down!
    If they do it, set the madman on them ;)

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