There are people who visit this weblog everyday, some once a week, others pop-in after receiving my occasional e-news. Then there are those who just pass through having, for example, googled something like “global warming for dummies”.
Last month the site was visited by over 21,000 different people who downloaded over 110,000 individual pages and traffic is steadily growing.
To everyone, whether you have made me laugh or cringe, a big thankyou! I have learnt a lot about all sorts of things.
Also, a special thankyou to George McCallum in Berlin, Rick Ness in Jakarta, and Neil Hewitt in North Queensland, for the wonderful wildlife photographs you have shared with us over the last year.

from George McCallum, Berlin at Christmas
from Neil Newitt, a stripey possum and my favourite photo for 2006
from Rick Ness, thankyou and what is it?
from Colin, lost in the Simpson Desert and scariest picture sent in from a readers of this weblog in 2006
from the Pilliga, once Koala habitat, burnt November 2006
my daughter Caroline, going for a surf, how we spend Christmas holidays in Australia
Happy Christmas!
And my best wishes, especially to Richard Ness for 2007.
Jen,
all the best for the festive season and Christmas.
Louis
Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to Jen and all her readers/contributors.. as the late great Dave Allen used to say.. 'May your God go with you.'
Merry Christmas Jen, thanks for running this site. Best wishes to everyone.
Season's Greetings to all! Not everyone celebrates the same holidays, but whatever your creed or inclination, I wish the best to you all. And especially to our kind hostess, who identifies important issues and trends for the rest of us.
Merry Christmas, Jen and to all the commenters. You've given us a gift through this site that gives all year, and I appreciate that.
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Hi Jennifer,
You've become the subject of a rather lively debate over at our place, all because of the tapir pic. Go here.