Patrick Comerford
The world of AI is in a confused state with allegations in recent days about Chinese spying and infiltration and with the response of the markets to the mid-term elections in the US.
AI also continues to be baffle me with the ways it describes my blogging. It tells me this week that ‘Patrick Comerford is not a mainstream “famous blogger”, but he is a prominent figure who maintains a highly active and well-regarded online presence. His primary recognition comes from his distinguished career as an Anglican priest, theologian, author, and journalist.’
It goes on to say, ‘While he might not be a household name in popular blogging culture, his writing is deeply respected within academic, theological, and local history circles.’
This blog reached a new record and a new grand total with 67 million hits early this morning (10 November 2026), soon after 6 am. This is the third time this month that the figures have passed the million mark, having reached 66 million hits three days ago (7 November 2026) and 65 million six days before that, at the beginning of the month (1 November 2026).
Last month’s total number of hits was more than 5.4 million (October 2026), September was the highest total in any single month since I began blogging, with more than 10.4 million hits, and last month was the third highest. At the end of last year, this blog had 21 million hits (31 December 2025). So far this year, there have been more than 46 million hits or visitors in 2026 alone.
I first began blogging in 2010, and it took almost two years until July 2012 to reach half a million readers. Throughout this year, the daily figures have often been overwhelming, with averages of 175,000 to 180,000 a day last month and about 212,000 a day so far this month, with more than 2 million hits so far in November.
Some curious though random statistics may help to put today’s new figure of 66 million into perspective:
Venus orbits the Sun from an average distance of 67 million miles (108 million km), or 0.7c astronomical units (1 astronomical unit, abbreviated AU, is the distance from the Sun to Earth). Sunlight takes about six minutes to travel from the Sun to Venus, compared to about eight minutes for the Sun and Earth.
A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex named ‘Gus’ went on sale in New York earlier this year with a pre-sale value of $30 million but eventually fetched $50.1 million at auction.
The total population of France is almost 67 million (66.75 million) according to the mid-year 2026 estimates by the UN and Worldometer estimates, although French national statistics place the figures at around 69.1 million.
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest church in the US with 67 million members, followed by the Southern Baptist Convention with 16.3 million.
In the initial period following the death of Leonard Cohen 10 years ago (7 November 2026), Nielsen data tracked a massive surge in demand for his music, with 69 million on-demand audio streams, alongside millions more in album and track sales.
A Rotherham golfer, Kevin Popplewell, achieved an extraordinary feat by hitting two holes in one during the same round at Rotherham Golf Club in what was described by BBC Radio Sheffield as a ‘67 million to one miracle’.
The pro-Trump right-wing news outlet Newsmax agreed last year to pay $67 million to settle a libel lawsuit brought by Dominion Voting Systems over claims by Newsmax that the voting machine company engaged in election fraud during the 2020 presidential election. That’s a big check to write all for the sake of egregious lies to massage the deflated ego of a defeated tyrant.
Wikipedia has over 67 million articles in more than 300 languages. Farsi (Persian) is the official language of Iran, where over 67 million people speak it in its standard form.
The brick-built Maiden Lane Reservoir can hold 67 million litres of water or the equivalent of 27 Olympic-size swimming pools, and supplies water to 200,000 people in north London.
Marks & Spencer recently spent £67 million on acquiring a new warehouse at Fradley Park in Lichfield. The ‘state of the art’ fashion hub in Lichfield will re-open next year.
67,000 km is 67 million metres and 67,000 sq km is 67 million sq metres.
Greek Macedonia covers approximately 34,177 sq km, or roughly 51% of the total 67,000 sq km of the greater geographical region of Macedonia. The major urban centres are Thessaloniki, Katerini, and Kavala, and the highest elevation is Mount Olympus at 2,917 metres.
Abu Dhabi, one of the seven emirates in the United Arab Emirates and the largest and second most populous, has an area of approximately 67,000 sq km (67,340 sq km).
67 million minutes is equal to 127 years, 4 months, and 19 days, which means that if this blog was receiving just one hit a minute, I would need to have started blogging back in July 1899.
I retired from active parish ministry on 31 March 2022. These days, though, on average more than 200 people are reading my daily prayer diary posted on this blog each morning, or a ‘virtual congregation’ of about 1,400 people each week. As this blog moves beyond 67 million hits, I am truly grateful today to the real readers among those 67 million. In particular, I am thankful for the faithful core group of people who join me in prayer, scripture reading and reflections each day.
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