Its been a very hot and steamy few days. My friendly postman is wandering the streets in a floppy hat someone has sent him out in with the Royal Mail logo on it and the tanning shop in the High Street has given up entirely on getting any custom and stopped opening altogether.

Into this sweaty world, comes news that Technomist's June readership amounted to a whopping 4965 visitors to the Archipelago. That's probably not many compared to a lot of people's blogs, but I am writing about Walthamstow. Those numbers seem to me to be pretty weird, and may well have involved more than one person at the same time looking at what I had written.

I am particularly humbled when I think that the highlights of the month include way too much politics, a review of the waiting arrangements in the local vet's office and a discussion of the fondness of second hand white goods businesses for filling up the pavements in front of their shops.

Thanks everyone who dropped by, whatever the reason. This is a local blog about some pretty petty stuff, so I do appreciate your interest. That's the most visitors I've ever had in a month and is especially pleasing as the dead tree media is sometimes claiming blogging is in its last gasp. It isn't.