October on this blog

As ever, a look at the stats for this blog. Once more earlier stats can be found at the pages for February, March, April, May, June, July, August and September.

First off the sites most people come from:

1. Google (-)
   
2. Mars Hill (+1)
   
3. Cllr Iain Lindley's Diary (+2)
   
4. Jo Salmon (-2)
   
5. Blogger.com (+1)
   
6. Ulster Young Unionist Council (+1)
   
7. Mark Clarke: Conservative Future Chairman (NEW)
   
8. Cally's Kitchen (+1)
   
9. Antonia Bance (-1)
   
10. Iain Dale's Diary (-)

Dropping out of the top ten altogether is http://mincelot.iblogs.com/ (at 18, down 14). Not a very exciting month with most sites moving at most two spots. The one notable new arrival is Mark Clarke.

Then we have the top ten search engine requests that brought people here:

1. what does your birthday say about you (-)
   
2. tim roll-pickering (-)
   
3. laura blomeley (-)
   
4. martin cakebread conservatives (NEW)
   
5. when is iain paisley birthday? (NEW; and it's April 6th)
   
6. question time panelists (NEW)
   
7. aston university labour blog fiona (NEW)
   
8. what are the names of the old grumpy muppets (NEW; and they are Statler and Waldorf or Ming and Vince)
   
9. blog sutton surrey (NEW)
   
10. end of charles kennedy (NEW)

As ever a mixture of brand new terms and some ongoing ones. Some of the stranger other terms include:

• andre oboler france summer 2006 - so what did Andre get up to?
  
• shocking policies about the british national party - frankly a tautology
  
• 'john nye' radley - once again not one to remember well
  

Not too many downright absurd terms this time though.

Finally as ever we have a list of all the cities detected that people are in):

BANDUNG, BASILDON, BELFAST, BIRMINGHAM, BOURNEMOUTH, BREWSTER, BRISTOL, BROOKLYN, CAMBRIDGE, CARDIFF, CHATHAM, CHULA VISTA, COLUMBUS, COVENTRY, DEARBORN HEIGHTS, DUDLEY, DULLES, EDINBURGH, EDMONTON, FLORENCE, GRAND RAPIDS, HOUSTON, IRVING, JOHANNESBURG, KERNERSVILLE, LEEDS, LEEUWARDEN, LIVERPOOL, LONDON, LOS ANGELES, MANASSAS, MOUNTAIN VIEW, NEW YORK, NORWICH, NOTTINGHAM, OXFORD, QUEZON CITY, RESTON, SAN ANTONIO, SHEFFIELD, SINGAPORE, SLOUGH, SOUTHAMPTON, TORONTO, TRENTON, VANCOUVER, WELLINGTON, WEST COVINA and "others".

Thank you all for reading!