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The Colonel and Mrs Thorn

colonelthorn.home.blog · a site they built themselves

Read them at colonelthorn.home.blog → The writing is on their site. This page is what the index measured.

The Colonel and Mrs Thorn publishes novels at colonelthorn.home.blog, a site they built themselves. Last published May 2026, still publishing this year. Not in the top million domains: the big engines have never ranked it.

128 dated posts since 2019unfound by the big engines

Posts per month, from their own dated linksJanuary 2019 to March 2026

JFMAMJJASOND20192019-01: 420202020-01: 12020-10: 12020-12: 120212021-01: 22021-02: 72021-03: 52021-04: 72021-05: 22021-06: 22021-07: 72021-08: 42021-09: 120222022-01: 22022-02: 72022-03: 12022-04: 320232023-12: 120242024-01: 32024-02: 82024-03: 62024-05: 42024-06: 22024-07: 22024-08: 22024-10: 32024-11: 22024-12: 220252025-02: 12025-05: 42025-06: 62025-07: 32025-10: 320262026-01: 42026-03: 15
fewermorepeak: 15 in March 2026

Counted from links on their own pages whose paths carry a year and a month. That reaches only the pages the crawl has seen, so early years may be undercounted.

Posts per year

420193202037202113202212023342024172025192026

2026 is January to October.

Years at it, against the index

0 yrs10 yrs20 yrs30 yrsthis writer · 7

Every writer in the index by years since their earliest evidence. This writer: 7, from the earliest date the crawl saw. The index reads front pages, so it sees most writers as younger than they are.

Anatomy of the site

Pages
1 captured
Front page
239 KB, 38 scripts, 35 imagesindex median front page: 112 KB
Built with
a static generator
Trackers
present
Links out
0 other writers in the index, 5 other sites, 3 platforms
Found
2026-09-10, by following another writer's link

Words they use that almost nobody else in the index does

jauncey1pierre62etienne3varaigne1jane314window716facebook889share1261chateau8eugenie2kirkland5ferussac1courteille1normandy7

Single words from their own pages, weighted by how rare each is across the 4,473 sites in the index. The small number is how many sites in the index use the word at all. Never a line of the writing.

Why it ranks on Longhand Featured

ranked here because: unfound by the big engines · still publishing · essays, stories, or poems

How the machine sees this site

  • Not in the top million domains. No big engine has ranked it for anything.
  • A feed. Readers can follow the site without a platform in between.
  • Built with a static generator. The pages are files, written once.
  • Some tracking is present.

Why search does not surface this site, and why that is the machine's problem.

Readers

Hearts show once a writer reaches three. No account, no cookie.

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