"Invitation to Flora's Blog"

**J* D* <j*@xcountry.tv>**

Good winter's morning, fellow scribes.

This morning brought me a 'personal invitation' from someone calling  
herself Cathy Simpson, inviting me to participate in a new blog called  
The Gardeners' Blog (http://theecosystem.blogspot.com). Participating  
is supposed to make my blog more popular, something she says in six  
different ways; but oh yes, please add this URL/page element which  
leads to an online shopping site.

Okay, so at least she's not stealing content, just wants free  
advertising for some UK-based online shopping site. The interesting  
thing is, the 'personal followup message' is addressed to 'Dear  
Blogger', and the writing in the email is stilted in such a way as to  
suggest that perhaps English isn't the writer's first language. Example:

> This would be a great privilege for us and would justify the noble  
> intention behind this blog. It’s not this blog that would be  
> popularized only; but I personally would take care of all the  
> contributors’ blogs to popularize also.

Did anyone else get this 'personal invitation?' I won't paste the  
entire content of the email in because it has one of those "this email  
is intended solely for the use of the use of the addressee", but it  
was probably sent to quite a number of bloggers, and I know some of  
the list members have blogs.

Maybe I'm just overly suspicious and need more coffee, but I'd like to  
see what others think.

cheers, jodi

Jodi DeLong, MA
“Atlantic Canada’s Garden Writer”
Member, Garden Writers Association (GWA)
My online resume: www.bloomingwriter.ca
My Gardening blog: bloomingwriter.blogspot.com

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