Hello to my new adult fanbase!

After months of totting up somewhere between 200-500 readers a day for this blog, my audience figures leapt to a staggering 4,000 a couple of days ago, which as you can imagine filled me with great jubilation.

Until I discovered where they were coming from....

As previously mentioned, the Derby Telegraph's editor Neil White is my blogging guru as he writes his own rather successful blog Every Film. So I trotted into his office yesterday to crow about my success.

"4,000 HITS IN JUST ONE DAY," I boasted as I stuck my head around his door.

"That's brilliant," he replied. "And by the way, that skirt is too short. Now have you had a look at where they are coming from?"

Turns out that Blogger offers you a number of clever little features which show you exactly where your audience is coming from, including which countries (I'm popular in America weirdly) and referring websites, such as Facebook and Twitter.

So Neil helpfully came over to my desk to look over my shoulder and show me how to use these features to find out why I was suddenly so popular.

"Look," he pointed out. "There's a website here that is referring thousands of people to your blog. Click on it and see what it is."

I clicked.

"WOAH," we both gasped, as a naked young lady, on all fours, photographed from behind, popped up in front of us.

Not the kind of image you want to be viewing alongside your 50-year-old boss.

Silence.

Then the boss collapsed laughing as the rest of the office came dashing over to have a gander.

"Oh my god," cried Neil, doubling over. "You've somehow got linked to a porn site. From Birmingham of all places. Porn from Brum!"

We called Dan, our IT Man, over to investigate the problem, but after 20 excruciating minutes of clicking through various photographs (not the kind of content you particularly want to be viewing while sat next to a straight-laced IT man!) he was none the wiser.

"It appears that this website is somehow directing people to your blog, but I can't see how or why, and I can't find any direct links," said Dan. "You moderate all the comments that come into your blog anyway so they can't post anything on here.

"So basically, just enjoy all the extra hits until it dies down."

So it looks like I have a new audience. Greetings to you if you have just been referred here from that adult website, and apologies but you'll find the content slightly tamer.