I've tried to be very severe with this blog. There's been very little about me (okay, you now know I have pieces of metal through personal parts, but that's about it), and I've tried to keep this about Ilkley. When I started back last year, I made the assumption that there were lots of blogs like this, that concentrated on a small area and worked it to death. Of course there are the porn and related blogs (and hasn't belle de jour got boring? Self-satisfied little 'madam/mister' defining the Chapel Allerton Jewish Princess tag), but otherwise there seem to be very few single subject blogs (oh and excluding the Iraq and US politics ones *yawn*). So, the aims of this blog were to avoid personal confession, avoid the 'acrid smell of burnt poetry' (ta Plum), and just write about a place. Looking around I've found three blogs that are anything like it. Course, there are loads of great blogs that are almost like it...Basingstoke Boy and so on. But really taking a small area and working it to death, so far we have.. The one about the local bus, which is from redmaiden. Then there's the very good one about weird people in Hackney. I love this site, having lived there, it's just so, so, right. And then there's the one from Wiltshire which is the nearest of all to this. And that's about it. I think. So, if you run or know of anything that's strictly parochial, wherever that parish may be, let me know so I can add it to the list.