We started this blog when we arrived in Paris in January 2005. We're still going.

Compare that to other blogs in this survey:

Two thirds were not updated in the last two months, meaning 2.72 million blogs have been either permanently or temporarily abandoned.

1.09 million blogs were one-day wonders, with no postings on subsequent days.

The average duration of the remaining 1.63 million abandoned blogs was 126 days (almost four months).

132,000 blogs were abandoned after being maintained a year or more.

So don't be saying we never call, we never write, not even a card, just because I might take an afternoon off now and then in the hot sun.