Yes, I know, three posts in a single day ... but have you seen the rain out there?  I'm sitting tight, meddling with my blogroll, doing my online housekeeping.

I've been umm-ing and aaah-ing over whether posterous is the best platform for my blog.  I've started using twitter more to post links, and posterous just doesn't integrate it well.  Also, the posterous comments system is not the best: I'd like to be able to let good sorts like Tracey (who I know isn't about to use my comments to try and sell viagra) go through automatically, but I only get an all or nothing choice.  Soooo ... any comments or suggestions about blog hosting very welcome! 

In other housekeeping business, newly added to my blogroll are:

The debate: should Australians tip? (one of my fellow Melbourne PhDers, John Burgess)

Mil's rather brilliant blog 21stCenturyFix (British politics)

Revsimmy's A Tree in the Forest (C of E)

The Big Society Network blog (British politics)

The C of E news feed (yes, it is filed under C of E!)

Cranmer  (Is His Grace politics, is he C of E?  I went for politics)

Enemies of Reason (British politics)

FiLo - The Fieldwork in London Network (socsci)

Nick Pearce's blog over at the Institute for Public Policy Research (British politics)

Platform 10 (British politics)

Political Scrapbook (British politics)

Progress (British politics)

Spectator blogs (British politics)

Whew!  My British politics section now runneth over.  But, as always, I'm happy to take suggestions for blogs/news sources I might like to read. 

I've been doing some tinkering with my blogroll once more, partly to reflect changes in my RSS subscriptions, and also in an effort to make this blog do more of what it says on the tin and actually focus on Britain.

So, farewell to the whole 'other blog goodness' section.  Alas, I knew it well, but it just wasn't relevant.  A couple of all quiet on the Western front blogs have been sliced here and there as well. 

The whole Anglicanism section has just been pruned back to CofE bods. (And Scottish Episcopal.)  Joining this section are Charlie Peer's Always Hope, RevRuth's Rantings, and Benny's Blog.  I've also popped the fabulous Riazat Butt in here (general British religion reporting). 

Aaaaand, I now have a British politics section featuring Dresstotheleft, Hopi Sen, Inequalities (which covers the US as well), Labour Uncut, Left Foot Forward, Jackie Ashley and Simon Jenkins at the Guardian, Simon Hoggart's Sketch (also at the Guardian),and ToryDiary.  Yes, things are leaning quite leftward there ... I'm trying out a couple more Tory/LibDem sources so expect a few additions soon-ish. 

Aaaand part II, I've started cobbling together a fledgling history section which at the moment includes Fragments, Georgian London, How to be a Retronaut (which doesn't always cover Britain but is very good when it does), and the Virtual Victorian. 

Aaaaand part III, the More around Britain section includes a few things previously housed elsewhere, plus Datablog, the HCA's Robin Wood, and the WI's Ruth Bond.

Obviously, I hoof through a vast quantity of reading so I will be extremely happy to take suggestions about blogs and other sites or sources that I should take a look at. 

Now, if this post isn't already tediously housekeeping-ish enough for you, just be thankful that I haven't (yet!) decided to collate the vast quantities of journal feeds I subscribe to! 

(Some may be surprised that I do housekeeping.  Not of the Good variety, but I do like to see a spot of vacuuming done now and again.)

On Friday I trotted along to enjoy the monthly mithering of the Ethnography Forum.  My supervisory snap and PhD comrade Natalie Swann presented on her plans to get collaborative through her research blog.  I have accordingly added the blog in question, 'on the way home', to my blogroll. 

While I was dusting out the blogroll to find a spot for our Natalie, I got rid of Drayton Parslow, who has fled Frisby-on-Soar, and fetched up once more in Husborne Crawley.  Archdruid Eileen has conveniently returned from nineteenth-century Wessex, so the tealights blaze once more.  Huzzah!  (And if I just made no sense at all, get thee to the Beaker Folk of Husborne Crawley immediately.)