January New Feeds

I’m not seeking out a lot of new blogs at the moment. With my recent lifestyle changes I am not having as much time for reading blogs and commenting as I used to do. My apologies if I have been a bit absent from your comments sections, it is not you, it is me, focusing on me. I will be back soon, I promise!

If the lack of blog additions continues, I might only post new feeds once every two months for a while.

New blogs to the feed reader since 30th November –

A Girl Named Allyn
An English Girl Rambles 2016
Full Of Curves
lower your presser foot

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 4 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment.

If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately. I wrote this post – how to get started with Inoreader.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

A Note For Bloglovin’ People

Did I follow you this month on Bloglovin however you do not see your blog listed here? That means you followed me, I followed you back, but I did not add you to my feed reader. It is not you, it is me. It might be one of the following things – you use a partial feed – I did not love your content – your blog was not interesting to me – you use too many photos and/or gifs – your blog is written in a language I do not understand. If you want to know why specifically, you can contact me and ask.

June & July New Feed Review –

Did you notice I took a sneaky month off from new feeds in December? I have gone through the review process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –

June

Adventures in Weseland
An English Girl Rambles
Assholes Watching Movies
barbsbabbling
Blake Hill House
Cat Eyes—A Cat Woman’s Photos
Cathy @ Still Waters
Chickens Out Yonder
ChocolateSuze
Coloring Outside the Lines
CopperWitch
Cup on the Bus
FreakyFlier
The Gluten Free Alchemist
Kati Rose
Kayaking Seattle
KenjiSAITO
Life at Golden Pines
Life with Tweens
Merlesworld
Mitchell is Moving
Our New Life in the Country
postcards from the rain
Randomosity
Sarcastic Granny
Sue’s escape from Cancerland
The Hedge Combers
The Kay Times
The Occasional Nomads
The Randomness of Twee
The Run*A*Round Ranch Report
Things are looking U.P.
Things I Make (for Dinner)
thoughts & happenings
Voluptuous Chatterbox
[Farm-ily]

July

All About T
Booth #555
Buttons Thoughts
Curves & Curls
Curvy Wordy
Dkzody’s Weblog
Edwardian House Renovation
Fat Girl For Life
GreenComotion
HRH The Countess of Wessex
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge
It’s All About Purple
Lea’s Menagerie
looking for identity
Paul Zizka Photography
racheerachh eats
United Cakedom
Viewing nature with Eileen
Wanderlust + Sweets

Why did I unsubscribe from 19 of the June blogs and 11 of the July blogs? The reasons are as follows listed in no particular order – taken from my blog posts 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.

Blogs With A Partial Feed. Where Are You? They Are A Wanna-be. I’m Overwhelmed. Too Many GIFS All The Time. The blog was deleted.

See previous new feeds posts by clicking here.

New Feeds

Some Blog Housekeeping

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Feed Bundles

If you have dropped by the blog lately, you might have noticed a couple of new things in the sidebar. A while back, someone asked me if I could put together a list of my favourite blogs. I finally got around to doing that, but then I thought.. I should not stop there. So I have created 4 bundles.

Favourites – The 100 blogs in my Faves folders.

Main Blogroll – 152 of the blogs listed on my main blogroll.

Updated Often – the remaining 16 feeds from my main blogroll who sometimes post more than 2 posts a day.

Test Drives – All the 315 blogs I am test driving (current as at 30/11)

The reason for the Updated Often bundle is because if I put those blogs in with the other blogs, sometimes you’d see anywhere between 3-16 posts in a row for the same blog which works ok in the bundle but does *not* work ok when I’ve put all these bundles as RSS feeds in the blog sidebar, showing 20 posts at a time for each bundle. So I just pulled those blogs out and put them in their own bundle.

bundles

So, if you are looking for new blogs to read, you can check out the bundles. If you click on the links above it will take you to the bundle page where you can scroll through and see if a photo or title catches your eye. This is one reason many people recommend putting a photo with each post. If your feed is partial, people will probably not see any of your images, they might only get a title and some text.

Blogroll Update

While I was doing the mammoth task above, I also went through the blogroll, updating it to the most current list yet. I added * to the blogs which are in the favourites folders purely to make it easier for me to keep track of them when I update the blogroll in future as the process is a bit of a nightmare.

What is the difference between Main Blogroll and Snoskred Favourites? It is pretty simple. In my feed reader I have many folders. I organise it this way for two reasons – so that I can keep track of the monthly new feeds and so that the blogs can be read in bite size chunks. That is important when you are reading nearly 600 of them. It looks like this –

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Blogs in my favourites folders are simply the ones I want to read first. They are the blogs that I sit down with my morning coffee to read and enjoy enormously – both the coffee, and the blog posts.. They originally would have started out in other folders.

It might have been one post – like this one from rusty duck – I remember reading that post and moving that blog to favourites simply because I was intrigued and thinking I want to watch this garden journey.

It might have been a feeling that developed over several posts. It might be once I read the favourites folders, I found myself heading to their folder wondering “Did X post something today?” – that is when I know they have to make a folder move.

It might be that they comment on my blog regularly. It might be that I love the subjects they are writing about. It might be that they own chickens or have gorgeous pets. It might be that I feel a kinship to them. It might be many, many other things.

They are from all kinds of places – Australia, Canada, the UK, Europe, the USA – Hawaii has an unfair share of people in the favourites folder. There are many different kinds of people. They write about many different subjects, food, family, fashion, travel, gardening, chooks, photography, astronomy, living frugally, living life, television and more.

I might not love every post they write. There might be some posts I scroll past quickly. In general though, 99% of their posts I do enjoy.

I usually try to leave test drive blogs in their original folders until their 6 months is up, but there are times I know a blog has become a favourite and I move it ahead of time. October already has 3 blogs which have moved into favourites.

Blogs not in my favourites folders are not less interesting to me, nor does it mean their posts are not read by me. There is every chance tomorrow they will be yanked out of their present folder and into “faves11” which does exist and is waiting for blogs to appear in it.

Blogs in my favourites folder rarely move out of there, and they are rarely unsubscribed from. I will tolerate some things from my favourites which I might not tolerate from a main blogroll blog, and I certainly would not tolerate at all from a test drive blog. Like what, you ask?

UNSUBSCRIBE ME

There I am, on a peaceful Friday, scrolling through my feed reader.. and all of a sudden, a massive Huntsman photo appears as a surprise to me. Seriously? That is Not Cool, people. I hit unsubscribe within moments, then removed that blog from my blogroll and my Inoreader bundle. My skin was crawling for several hours. Ugh!

As a blogger, I am well aware that people are reading what I write and viewing what I post. I know there are people out there who fear these particular creatures. I would never, ever, post a photo of a snake or a spider on my blog without using a Read More tag. I’d write a little thing at the end of the post that said “Hey, I’m about to post a photo of a spider (snake) so if you are ok with seeing that, you can click here to see it”.

I guess I will have to start working on my next reasons I unsubscribe post. :) Here the current ones – 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.

However if a favourite posted a spider pic, I’d be annoyed, sure! I’d still have the skin crawling thing, but I’d get over it and keep reading the blog. This is not an invitation to my favourites to start posting that kind of thing, please don’t do that. ;)

Going Forward

I’m going to try and only touch the blogroll and bundles once a month when I do the new feeds post. Right now, I unsubscribe somewhat willy nilly but whenever I do it, I go in and remove the blog from the blogroll if it was there, and I remove it from the bundles. This has resulted in occasional chaos, so it must stop. :) I might make a new folder and call it unsubscribes, to try and keep track of them.

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New Feeds November

New blogs to the feed reader since October 31 –

AppleApricot
Bee Haven Acres
Christabelle
Eight Acres
floral typings
Framboise Manor
Frugal In Derbyshire
Global Roaming Blog
gracegrl
Henny Penny Lane
I’m Switching Sides
Infinite belly
Love, Jay
Our Happy Acres
Pastimes, Passions & Paraphernalia
Steph’s Green Space
Sunnybrook Farm
Two men and a little farm
venturesinphotos
YANIE
Yasmina

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 21 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment.

If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately. I wrote this post – how to get started with Inoreader.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

A Note For Bloglovin’ People

Did I follow you this month on Bloglovin however you do not see your blog listed here? That means you followed me, I followed you back, but I did not add you to my feed reader. It is probably not you, it is me. :)

If it *is* you, it might be one of the following things – you use a partial feed – your rss feed did not work or was not found – I did not love your content – your blog was not interesting to me – you use too many photos and/or gifs – your blog is written in a language I do not understand – too many sponsored posts or affiliate links. You can always contact me and ask why.

May New Feed Review –

And it has now been six months since May, so this month I have gone through the review process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –

A gluttonous wife
A Year In My Garden
Almost Posh
An Exacting Life
Breathing Space
Happy Retiree’s Kitchen
Knocked Over By A Feather
Laws of the Kitchen
Lucy eats
Sixth In Line
The Muffin Queen’s Closet
The Weekend Foodie

Why did I unsubscribe from 12 of the 24 blogs? The reasons are as follows listed in no particular order – taken from my blog posts 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.

Blogs with a partial feed– I’m Not Feeling It – Where Are You? – The Content Went AWOL – and I have to add a new one – 404 not found – their blog just disappeared – this happened to two blogs on the list this month!

New Feeds

New Feeds October

An Important Notice –

I mentioned earlier this week that I was not adding any more partial feeds to my feed reader. If I followed you on Bloglovin or WordPress this month and your blog does not appear in the below list, serving up a partial feed is the reason why. Presently I am reading over 600 blogs, which is a LOT of blogs, and the frustration I feel when I see a partial feed post simply is not fun or enjoyable for me. If you switch back to a full feed, let me know and I will subscribe in my feed reader.

New blogs to the feed reader since 30 September –

A New Beginning..
A note on a rainy night
A view to the Fells
AIKO CUNANAN
Alemint
Allowing Myself
asyouwishuk
Avoiding Atrophy
Bloved Boston
Beauty Affair
Books Speak Volumes
Casually Somewhere
Cath@Home
chanel no. five
Chronic Pain Cockney
Coffee, Makes Everything Better
Countryside Tales
Cuaderno Inedito
Dysthymaries
Franish
Grits in the City
Healthy Delicious
Hillary Chybinski
Iliska Dreams
Ilse Daniëlle
Jack’s Paper Moon
JennieEmma
Just-In-Time Travels
Leah XL
Linda Letters
Lisa Meilgaard
Lisa the Vegetarian
Lolly Likes
Love Leah X
Lux Life
Maple Hill 101
Mary Denman
Meanwhile in the Country
Megan-Starling
Misadventures with Andi
Monica Mariz
Ms Sparrow
nothomecooked
Pantry Revisited
Paper coffee store
pausestudio
Plane Girl
Pulpconnection
Reef Botanicals
Sarah Gina-Maria Reiter
Searching for Spice
Simply Healthy Family
Southernyacht
Susan K Mann
Sweet Sassafras
That Short Blogger
The Cat On My Head
The Lego Farmer
The Wilsons in Dublin
Vintage Bird Girl
Voyage of the MeeMee
Wanderlust
Water Painted Dreams
Wear and Tear
Where2Shop
Zinc Moon

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 66 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment.

If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately. I wrote this post – how to get started with Inoreader.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

April New Feed Review –

And it has now been six months since April, so this month I have gone through the review process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –

Art Peace
Badfish Out of Water
Blog Apocalypse
Bubbles in my Head
Clients From Hell
Elephant’s Child
Eye on the Edge
Good Woman
it just Dawned on me . . .
JibberJabberUK
Klar Himmel – Clear Skies – Carpe Noctem
Life at Number Five
Nutsrok
Patti Dawn Swanson
Random Musings And Wanderlust
Rants from Mommyland
SilverTiger
Snippets & Snapshots
That’s so pants
The Other Side of Sixty
The Plastic Mancunian
The Second Half of My Life
The Siberian American
TurtleHead
Welcome to my World
You Gotta Start Somewhere

This may be a new record, with a huge 10 bloggers from the above list jumping directly into my Favourites folders. I’m loving your work!

Why did I unsubscribe from 11 blogs? The reasons are as follows listed in no particular order – taken from my blog posts 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.

PARTIAL FEEDS, too many photos, they went quiet, they are a wanna-be, I’m not feeling it.

Is your blog not listed here but you would like it to be? Email Snoskred via the contact page and Snoskred will add your blog to her feed reader. :)

See previous new feeds for – August JulyJuneMayAprilMarchFebruaryJanuary2014 NovemberOctoberSeptemberAugust July

Update – I have created a brand new Inoreader Bundle with all the current blogs I have in the feed reader, and I have added an RSS feed to the sidebar which will – eventually – show the latest 20 posts.. :) right now it is showing the posts as they were put into Inoreader instead of most recent.

New Feeds

No More Partial Feeds

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I’m OVER partial feeds. If I add a feed into my feed reader only to discover it is a partial feed, I am unsubscribing right away and the blog will not appear in the monthly new feeds list. No matter how much I might have wanted to read that blog or enjoyed the content I saw there!

If a blogger is going to make me click through to their blog for every post in full, I’m out. Even if they are an amazing writer. Even if I really love what I saw on their blog.

Consider This –

Do bloggers really want to make their readers jump through hoops to read their content? I’m not a performing dog. :) Ain’t nobody got time for that shiznit! If I like the post and I have the time, I’m going to click through and comment.

If a blogger gives me a tiny snippet of their post and what is there does not seem interesting, I’m not clicking through. Sorry. :( A partial feed is simply a terrible concept when bloggers want people to read their writing. Those bloggers are frustrating your readers, and that content they worked so hard on is likely going to be left unread.

Current Reads –

For partial feeds already in the feed reader, I went through my feeds during October. I unsubscribed from all partial feed blogs and removed them from the blogroll. There are only two exceptions to this –

– I really, truly, deeply love your content and I want to keep reading your blog – but please, reconsider your partial feed!

– You comment here on a regular basis and/or I comment at yours regularly.

I also unsubscribed from blogs that had stopped posting, and blogs that use too many large photos as they take a long time to download, and can be very irritating. If you do not know how to resize your images, find out! Here is a post from Sephy that will help you.

Content Scraping –

If the reason you are using a partial feed is because you are worried about content scraping, there are things you can do that do not involve a partial feed – like these –

7 Tips and Tools to Stop Content Thieves in their Tracks

Beginner’s Guide to Preventing Blog Content Scraping in WordPress

But Wait, I’m Not Sure –

Do you know what kind of feed you are providing to your readers? If you do not, you had best subscribe to your own blog and find out. You should always subscribe to your own blog so you can make sure your content is appearing exactly how you want it to appear.

A partial feed is part of a post – eg, the first 20-50 characters and sometimes a photo as well. I do have blogs where all I get is the title of a post, sometimes the title and a photo and no text. None of those things are remotely tempting me to click through. In fact, what they are doing is making me feel annoyed and frustrated.

In Conclusion –

There are a lot of blogs out there in the world. I’d like to read all of them however there are not enough hours in the day. Presently I am reading over 600 blogs, which is a LOT of blogs, and the frustration I feel when I see a partial feed post simply is not fun or enjoyable for me.

It is mostly me, but bloggers who are using a partial feed, it is partly you too. If you are a blogger who only cares about blog stats and people clicking through to your blog, feel free to keep using partial feeds. I won’t be reading your blog, though. :/

Over To You –

What are your thoughts on partial feeds?

If you were using a partial feed but have gone back to full, let me know as I may have already unsubscribed.

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New Feeds September

As you read yesterday, this month is a little different to our usual New Feeds. Normally when I add a new blog to the feed reader, I have read back 20-40 posts and decided that I liked the content and wanted to read more.

This month, I did not visit the blogs themselves – only the blog page on Bloglovin. There were three criteria –

– They must be following a blog I already follow
– They must have posted something recently – Sep/Aug
– Is the content I can see interesting to me.

It should be noted that Bloglovin does not show much in the way of content – you only get a photo, the headline and maybe two sentences of text at most. So there is a chance not very many of these blogs will be long term keepers for me.

I will mention that anyone who has followed me gets an automatic follow back and a link below if they have a blog of their own, so there are a couple of blogs in here which are in different languages to the one I speak.

Important note –

If I followed you in September but your blog is not listed below, it is not listed on my blogroll, and you do not appear in my last 6 months of new feeds posts, please let me know in the comments so I can make sure to add your blog to this list. :)

13 Acres
5 Acres & A Dream
A Change of Pace
A Clean Bake
A Fresh Legacy
A Girl & Her Travels
A Global Stroll
A Labour of Life
a quiet girl in a noisy city
A Silver Twig
Actually Its Auburn
Adelante
Adventures in Tea and Cake
Adventures of a Teacher in Transition
Always Bubbles
Amanda Moments
Amy and the Great World
An Autumns Grace
An English Homestead
An Inch of Gray
Anchored to Sunshine
Angie The Freckled Rose
angiewalks
Another Clean Slate
Another Version
Averie Cooks
B. Britnell
Barbell & Me
Barbie Sparkles
Belleau Kitchen
Bholder
Bisous des Caribous
Bits of This & That
Blog A Book Etc
BlogByDenisee
Blogging For Sanity
Boho and Vintage
Books, Baking and Blogging
Bourbon & Brown Sugar
Broma Bakery
Cake Over Steak
can I decide another day?
Casa Costello
Cattitude and Co.
ChloEllio
CHOCOLATE + MARROW
Closet Cooking
Club VIP Da Lulusinha
Coastal Charm
color me kiki
Comfort Spiral
Confessions of an Art Teacher
Cookaholic Wife
Cookies Cardio and Clothes
Cornish Chickpea
Country Life Experiment
countrygypsie
Courtney, With Love
CranberryJam
Culinary Hill
Curvy Girl On a Budget
Curvy Girl Thin
Daisy Jayde
daisykatedaily
Day Dreaming Foodie
Dear Credit Card
Dear Diet Monster
Delicate Teeth
Designing From My Closet
DITY that DIY
Dorkface
Dorothy K
Downsize dreaming
Eat Drink Cook
Eat with Ellen
Eco Footprint ~ South Africa
Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary
Essays and Wine
Everything Erin
Far Side of Fifty
Farm Girl
FATGIRLslim
Feast with Sophie
Feasting at Home
Feet on Foreign Lands
Fennell Books
Foggy Day Studio
Food, Booze, & Baggage
Food, Feasting and Fun
Forever The Adventurer
Fork and Good
Fox Trails
Friko’s World
From the corners of the Curve
Frugal Foodie Mama
Furore
Goodnightgram’s Blog
Gringalicious
GuruJay
Havoc In The Kitchen
Healthy Lifestyle Recipes Blog
Heddington Posts
HEYLAINE
HolyMamaMoly
Home Made Zagat
How Kate Does Fashion
I Don’t Like Peas
I Only Eat Desserts
Ilona’s Passion
In this life
Indecisive Emma
insert classy here
insolence + wine
It’s Em…
It’s Jenny on the Spot
Jaimiesam
jana’s thinking place
Jani Franck
Jeannie in a Bottle
Jetsettin Daisy
Jo’s Kitchen
Joy’s Book Blog
Just for our Health
Just North of Wiarton & South of the Checkerboard
Kasey at the Bat
kate/idoscope
Kellibeans
Knit, bake, cultivate
La Pecosa Preciosa
Laughs Loudly and Often
LAURENS LOOKBOOK
Layers of Happiness
Life According to Steph
Life with Lolo
Lily, Not Louise
Lisa Berson
Lit Nerd
Little Apple Tree
Little Miss Drama Queen
Little Vegan Bear
live it.love it.bake it
Live Well Bake Often
Local Adventurer
Lost In These Words
love made my home
Love Wednesday
Luci’s Morsels
Lucy Lunges
Made by Melanie
Made in Mauve
Mahogany Drive
Making My Dreams Come True =]
Maui Goodness
Me
Medieval Fashion
Meena Means Me
Meet the BFF
Mello Mallo
Milan of Hawaii
Mind Over Batter
MissLilly’s Blog
MissLilly’s Journeys
Much To My Delight
My Aspiring Life
My Family Kitchen
My Life as Foteini
My Novel Opinion
My Passenger Diaries
My Reach for Perfection
Mysteries of the Hollow Bone
Natalia Vergara
Nina Badzin
No Thanks to Cake
nothingtowear
Nutritious Deliciousness
Oh Happy Dane
Oh my dish
Oh to Be a Muse
One Crazy Penguin
Order in the Kitchen
Outlanderly
Pancake Warriors
Patisserie Makes Perfect
Phoebe Giggles
Pleasurable Pursuits
prêt-à-porter NOIR
Problems With Infinity
quinces and kale
Quintessentially Me
racheerachh travels
Rad Fat Feminist
Ramblings of a Uni Student
Reagan: in my own world
Real Food by Dad
RedzAustralia
RIBELLE STUDIO
Rita’s notebook
Rock My Vegan Socks
Roo Food
Rosie Posie’s Puddings & Pies
rusty duck
Sarr Trek
sassyplus
Seeing Spots….
Shannon Mary
She Sows Seeds
ShrinkingSingle
Skinny Sometimes
Sophie’s Plus Size Wonderland
Sparkles at Midnight
Sprinkles and Sprouts
Stone Currents
Strong Southerly
Studio Cottage
Subscription Love
Sunshine Dreamer Travel
Sweet Carolina Belle
Sweetbriar Dreams
Sweetly Tattered
Tales from Taliena
Tam Loves Tea
tea in your twenties
Terrible Tumbles
The Chronicles of Chaos
The Crafty Larder
The Curvaceous Gypsy
The Explorer
The Foodie Couple Blog
The Gardening Shoe
The Golden Fox
The Good Life
The Gracious Pantry
The Guy With The Owl Tattoo
The Harlow Bloom
The Hemborg Wife
The Life & Loves of Ninegrandstudent
The Missing Lokness
The More, The Messier
The Name Is Minale
The Plus Size of Life
The Ramblings of an Aspiring Small Town Girl
The Sequin Notebook
The Storybook Girl
The Sydney Noob
The Thrifty Gypsy’s Travels
The Wellbeing Adventure
The World Through Kat’s Eyes
Through Tasha’s Camera
Tiara Mania
Till then, smile often
Tilly’s Nest
Tinned Tomatoes
Tiny Taurus
Toodaloo Katie
Top With Cinnamon
Tropical Mum
Tub on the Run
Turn Right At The Geese
Unorganised Chaos
UponMyCurves!
Viajante das Letras
Walking With Angels
Wallflower Girl
Wardrobe Oxygen
Webkin’s World
Weesha’s World
Whisk & Shout
wildly simple
Window to Wildlife
Wine and Sass
Write of the Middle
writing at the table
You’ll Move Mountains
Zeza’s Things

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 274 of you. You are now grouped into folders of 20 blogs each, in my feed reader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment.

If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately. I wrote this post – how to get started with Inoreader.

What Happens Now?

I will test drive your blog for 6 months, then all the blogs listed will be evaluated. I will decide whether or not to keep following them in my feed reader, and I will post the keepers here as I always do – so make sure to check back on 31 March to see if I kept you. Keepers will be added to the permanent blogroll.

Non Bloglovin’ Blogs for September –

I did add 20 non-Bloglovin blogs to the feed reader this month. I went along with my Bloglovin plan though – I did not read back through 40 posts or so, I took a look at a couple of posts and if I liked what I saw, I added it.

A House In Hobart
A New Life in Wales
awholeplotoflove
Blathering About Nothing
Blogs Like A Girl
Bright On A Budget
Doing It For Ourselves In Wales
Duni’s Studio
GrantLand
Happy Homebird
Invisible Crown
Jasmin Charlotte
Just Wandering
Living In The Land Of Oz
Matcha Milady
Mr Robot Quotes
Photographing New Zealand
Stonesoup
The Grits Blog
Through The Keyhole

March New Feed Review –

And it has now been six months since March, so this month I have gone through the review process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –

A Dingo Named Gerald
Angry people in local newspapers
can I get a witness
Nouveau North Westerners
Souvlaki for the Soul
The View Is Beautiful
writes like a girl
Writing, fatshion, me

Why did I unsubscribe from 3 of the 11 blogs? The reasons are as follows listed in no particular order – taken from my blog posts 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.

Posts too long – I’m Not Feeling It.

There are also two other reasons this month – one of the blogs Leslie Beslie went on hiatus and is email subscription only – I subbed because I enjoy that blog.

Then there is a whole other situation that happened with a blog. I originally loved the blog and even mentioned it here in a post, but I was treated unkindly in the comments section there more than once.

I discovered via an email exchange with the blog owner after one such unkind incident that the person running the blog is completely up themselves *and* an egotistical beyotch. According to her, it is perfectly fine that people treated me unkindly because her blog is popular. *boggle* I decided life is too short for that kind of shiznit and kicked that blog to the kerb. :(

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New Feeds

New Feeds August

New blogs to the feed reader since 31 July –

Between The Racks
Blargle Fargle
Breaking Well
Chocolate Covered Katie
Dashing Dish
Diary of a Size 22
Diary of an Apartment Cat
Does My Blog Make Me Look Fat?
Feel Great in 8 blog
Happy Food, Healthy Life
Heather Matarazzo
Ordinary Time
Sarah White
Six Inch Heel
Surely Sarah
The Lilac Linnet
The Lion’s Orchid
Thunder thighs, no compromise.

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 18 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment.

If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately. I wrote this post – how to get started with Inoreader.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

February New Feed Review –

And it has now been six months since February, so this month I have gone through the review process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –

Back Porch Tales
Beautiful, Free and Wonderful
BeautyfulYouniverse
Galla Creek Ephemeris
Going Gently
Practical Parsimony
RecipeGirl
Rosanna’s Kitchen
She Might Be Loved
Tea Was Here
The Adored Life
The Eat More Food Project
The House on the Hill
Velvet Sacks

Why did I unsubscribe from 17 blogs? The reasons are as follows listed in no particular order – taken from my blog posts 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.

They Went Quiet. I’m Not Feeling It. Blogs With A Partial Feed. Too Many Photos All The Time

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See previous new feeds for – JulyJuneMayAprilMarchFebruaryJanuary2014 NovemberOctoberSeptemberAugust July

A Note About Next Month

I’m planning to go on a new blog finding spree over the next couple of months. The first month, I am going to find some new blogs via Bloglovin’. This will actually be more difficult than it sounds because I do not read my blogs via Bloglovin’ – I have my own custom feed reader on the home server here which I use for that.

At the moment if I want to follow a new blog, I copy the link and add it into my feed reader. At the end of each month, I copy the blog links into my notepad file, followed by the blog title. This system works pretty well for me.

This month I am hoping to find blogs written by the followers of the blogs I already know, love and enjoy. If they follow the same blogs I do, chances are I might like their blog as well. So I am setting off into an unknown dimension. I’m a little bit excited about it to be honest.

My planned process for September will be – I will follow the blog on Bloglovin’, then copy the link to their blog into my personal feed reader, then add each link into my notepad as I go along to keep from having to double up the work at the end of the month. If all goes well, you can expect the new feeds September list to be fairly lengthy. :)

New Feeds

New Feeds July

New blogs to the feed reader since 30th June –

All About T
Anna in Wonderland
Birding For Pleasure
Booth #555
Buttons Thoughts
Curves & Curls
Curvy Wordy
Dkzody’s Weblog
Edwardian House Renovation
Empty Sundays
Fat Girl For Life
GreenComotion
HRH Prince Henry of Wales
HRH The Countess of Wessex
HRH The Duchess of Cambridge
It’s All About Purple
Jane’s Patisserie
Lea’s Menagerie
looking for identity
Normandy Life
One Good Thing by Jillee
Paul Zizka Photography
Pfeiffer Pfilms and Meg Movies
racheerachh eats
Round The Bend
Shug…My Steps of Faith
The Lady Lawyer
The Pink Lyme
United Cakedom
Viewing nature with Eileen
Wanderlust + Sweets

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 31 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment.

If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately. I wrote this post – how to get started with Inoreader.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

December/January New Feed Review –

And it has now been six months since January, so this month I have gone through the review process and the blogs which I am keeping are these –

Amarachi Ukachu
And Then We Laughed
Balancing Meanderings
betweenthewires
Champagne and Chips
Engrish.com
Expat Eye On Germany
Goodnight, Cheese
Hollywood Housewife
Hotly Spiced
Miscriant
Not Entirely Perfect
Suburban Tomato
The Art of Simple
The Artisan Life
What I Weigh Today
Zandria.us

Why did I unsubscribe from 17 of the 34 blogs? The reasons are as follows listed in no particular order – taken from my blog posts 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.

Blogs With A Partial Feed. Where Are You? They Are A Wanna-be. I’m Overwhelmed. Too Many GIFS All The Time.

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New Feeds

New Feeds June

New blogs to the feed reader since 31 May –

A geriatric grandmother
A Small Life
Adventures in Weseland
An English Girl Rambles
Assholes Watching Movies
barbsbabbling
Blake Hill House
Brooke Meagan Jones
Bump and Beyond
Cat Eyes—A Cat Woman’s Photos
Cathy @ Still Waters
Chickens Out Yonder
ChocolateSuze
Coloring Outside the Lines
CopperWitch
Cranberry Morning
Cup on the Bus
Deep Fried Fruit
FreakyFlier
The Gluten Free Alchemist
Hungry and nostalgic
I just go for a walk
Kati Rose
Kayaking Seattle
KenjiSAITO
Lavender and Lovage
Lexie-Lou
Life at Golden Pines
Life with Tweens
Lighten Up!
Merlesworld
Mitchell is Moving
my ordinary life
No. 2 Pencil
Our New Life in the Country
postcards from the rain
Randomosity
Root Simple
Sarcastic Granny
Sue’s escape from Cancerland
TexErin-in-SydneyLand
The Hedge Combers
The Hesitant Scotsman
The Kay Times
The Occasional Nomads
The Randomness of Twee
The Run*A*Round Ranch Report
The Year(s) of Living Non-Judgmentally
Things are looking U.P.
Things I Make (for Dinner)
Thou Shalt Not Covet
thoughts & happenings
Toddler plus teens while living the dream
Voluptuous Chatterbox
[Farm-ily]

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 55 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you or perhaps you left a comment on a blog I read which I thought was excellent and I wanted to know more about you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment. If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll. YAY!

December New Feed Review –

I took a month off in December 2014, so this month I have no feeds to review. YAY it is nice to have a break every now and then.

Is your blog not listed on my blog but you would like it to be? Email Snoskred via the contact page with a link to your blog and Snoskred will add your blog to her feed reader. :) Or you can leave a comment on my blog with a link to your place, I’ll drop by.

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New Feeds

New Feeds May

New blogs to the feed reader since 30 April –

A Gai Shan Life
A gluttonous wife
A Year In My Garden
Almost Posh
An Exacting Life
Breathing Space
Fill Your Own Glass
Happy Retiree’s Kitchen
Happy. Pretty. Sweet.
HATTATT
Hedonist in Hats
Knocked Over By A Feather
Lambs’ Ears and Honey
Laws of the Kitchen
Lucy eats
Miss Kathryn’s Misstakes
Pink Haired Princess
Sixth In Line
Smaggle
The Muffin Queen’s Closet
The Shoe Girl Diaries
The Weekend Foodie
Watch, Look & Listen with Cheeky McB
You Saucy Minx

Welcome to my feedreader, bloggers.

There are 24 of you. In my internet travels I found my way to your blog, often because I read a blogger who linked to you. I liked your blog a lot. While there, I probably read back about 40+ posts or so. Then I added you to my feedreader.

Most of you will know what a feedreader is, but in case you do not, click here for info. The quick run down – it is an awesome program which collects new articles that bloggers post. So when you post something new, I get a copy, and if I have the time and something to say, I will click through and comment. If you want to get a feed reader, I highly recommend Inoreader, which I have been using a lot lately.

At the end of 6 months or so, if I am still loving your blog as much as I did when I added you to my feed reader, I will add you to my permanent blogroll.. YAY!

November New Feed Review –

And it has now been six months since November, so I have gone through the regular monthly review process. Here are the blogs I am keeping –

20/20 Hines Sight
A Horse and a Half
A Little Bit Salty
About a Bugg
Art My Cat Makes
Average Jane
Blog Apocalypse
Burburchan
Fish Of Gold
Floating Kitchen
francesd.com
Gentle Soul Arts
Green Lizard’s Blog
horticulturalhobbit
Leaves & Stitches
markbialczak
Monson Fonsons
Mostly True Stories of K. Renae P.
mychordomajourney
My Plus Size Year
ramblings from an insomniac
random truths
Sunny Corner Farm
Tabulous
The Fearless Scribe
The Inbetween Is Mine
The Secret Diary of a Newly Diagnosed Diabetic
The Variations Of Life And Lauren
The View from My Kayak
Wandering Sheila

These blogs have now all been added to the blogroll.

Why did I unsubscribe from 103 of 133 blogs? The reasons are as follows listed in no particular order – taken from my blog posts 14 Reasons and 10 New Reasons I unsubscribed from blogs.

Blogs With A Partial Feed. Where Are You? They Went Quiet. They Are A Wanna-be. They Were Cliquey. They Never Commented On My Blog. Too Many Photos All The Time.

Is your blog not listed here but you would like it to be? Email Snoskred via the contact page and Snoskred will add your blog to her feed reader. :)

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New Feeds