In days of yore, webloggers would leave each other messages of support on each others’ pages when they dropped by, the kind of messages that people sometimes leave in the guestbooks of B&Bs when they want to avoid the boring job of packing their suitcases.
“Hello, saw your page. It’s okay,” they would say. And that would be pretty much it.
Today, with tweetstorms and YouTube comments and constant internet outrage, it seems like a guestbook is more likely to draw be a full-throated disavowal of everything the blogger had ever written, a one star amazon review and an empty threat to get me fired.
But still, let’s try and be civil, shall we? Hello, you saw my page?
little.red.boat 
Hurrah for fresh sails and a favourable wind. Welcome back!
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Huzzah! Fresh sails and a favourable wind. Welcome back.
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Hello, saw your page. It’s A-OK.
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Hello and YAY for the blog. Not a newsletter. Big YAY for that.
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Yay, Little Red Boat is back! Thrilled to see you pop up in my feed reader again.
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Anna’s feeling boaty, and all is right with the world. Well, apart from the odd detail here and there that I’m sure between us we can work out.
Welcome back. We’ve missed you.
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Well, hurrah! Funny, it just hit me all of a sudden today, when I saw a picture of a red boat, that, hey, didn’t I use to follow a blog called Little Red Boat? I soon landed on your blog, and thought, wow, how amazingly industrious to still be writing it, and here I’ve let mine waste away, and then…I saw that you only fairly recently revved it up. Which made me feel lots better, both for (a) the return of your blog and (b) a lessening of feeling like I was just the only person in the universe to set my blog aside. Cheers!
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I used the word boaty in Wordle today (it was accepted; that surprised me) and then ofc I had to check if the site was still there and HERE YOU ARE! What a delight! And thank you!
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