c0ff33 vlog 3rd March 2018 - Frozen ☃️

Welcome to the weekly Vlog by @c0ff33a ☕️ 👈🏽 That's me! (The swirl is on vacation she'll never notice I nicked her tag line 🤣) Through this post you can watch my video vlog, or just enjoy the gifs and story that go with it covering my week on Steemit.

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We start this week with a little gif of the snow we have had in the UK, this might not look much compared to some parts of the world - but for the British who think a harsh frost is a nightmare this is Snowmageddon. And I got off lightly, some areas have had even more then this, blocking roads with cars being abandoned even the M62 motorway ended up getting closed with some motorists stuck in their cars for upto 20 hours. With temperatures as low as minus 5 degrees Celsius and never getting above freezing it's caused havoc with households as well getting frozen up pipework. On Wednesday night my home heating stopped working, after a bit of puzzling it turned out to be the water drain from the condenser boiler had frozen solid in the pipe stopping the boiler from working - a few kettles of hot water fixed that. Friday morning I arrived at work and no heating there - exact same problem I had a whole length of pipe to defrost and empty the ice out of!

On Sunday I did another #SublimeSunday Post and joined in the super fun tag #FunkyEdits by @krazypoet where you modify your normal photos with editing software to make the quite different looking. I just downloaded the app PicsArt which has a ton of options to add effects your photos. He does some amazing Picture Posts which are well worth checking out. I also added in a #beautifulsunday tag by @ace108 who has made a whole competition out of the tag which is really cool. I also discovered this warning post about about a misspelling domain where Steewit.com looks just like Steemit but will capture your account login and then it is used to empty your account of funds. It's a timely reminder to be extra vigilant about where we enter our account details - be extra careful and double check if you are unsure because this sort of scam will most likely just get worse. Plenty of people joined in with the #SublimeSunday tag again - my favourite goes to @hazeem91 My Not So SublimeSunday where he shared his tasty breakfast and shock horror - he doesn't drink coffee 😱

On Monday I discovered a beautiful rose by @deadgrlsuppastar and also took a snowy walk with me with @fishyculture she has even more snow then I have to deal with! I also discovered the amazing Shine Bright project started by @progressivechef in this first post he introduces @jorgegp I found this a unique and inspiring way to support new and small accounts on Steemit, you can read his full introduction to the project here it's such a clever idea to help people get seen more.

On Tuesday I discovered The top 201 prolific commenters on Steemit in 2018 No surprise that many of these are bots, this data from the master of stats @abh12345 lists all the Steemit accounts making a large number of comments - and guess what little old me appeared on it! I'm in the top list of something (polite comments only please) with nearly 2000 comments to my name this year. But even more impressive is that @tattoodjay managed a monster 7500 comments this year so far! That's incredible, the photography master who can entertain us with amazing pictures every single day has reached out to so many - and you know every single one of those was meaningful as well. Incredible work, I have to bow down to his admirable skills. I know I often bore many of you going on about how comments are important, you need to get out and comment on as many posts as you can - for me this is a nice little indication that I really do practice what I preach, it really is the best way to get yourself more visibility for your own blog.

On the back of all this, on Tuesday night I came up with another new idea #FreeCommenting - it's my take on #FreeWriting but you make your own rules for the commenting. The challenge I came up with was to go down all the accounts the mothership account had upvoted in the last 7 days (60 Accounts), I visited every account blog and made sure I had left an upvote and comment on at least one of their recent blog posts. It took me the whole evening, but I did it and the challenge was quite rewarding - there was a diverse range of accounts blogging on a wide range of subjects - leaving a meaningful comment on content I might not normally view took quite a large amount of effort. But it was very useful - the post I mention above by @progressivechef was found by doing this. I also left a special little gif at the end of my comment footer - so if you have seen this gif in anybodies comments that was me #FreeCommenting. Next Tuesday I will try something different for my challenge.

I have been trying to keep up with long time friends lately, @askmee continues to delight and presents in this post his Steemit caricature on a t-shirt - so very creative. And I was really impressed by iPhone Photography Apps by @hassanben a long time supporter of mine, the slow shutter cam app was something I have been looking for. @beforandafter can always make me grin with his great fun posts. And @herbil is a constant source of useful information like this Windows plug in app and of course cryptocurrency is always a hot topic Bank of England Update on holding Cryptocurrencies to wider financial system standards by @abdelfattahnadif reminds me yet again the main Agenda for worldwide Governments is the current lack of taxation revenue from Cryptocurrency holding.

You know I love music, @cygon has a great mix to go with any post, in this Fitness Fail which is not very fair to call it a fail - after all he at least went to the gym! Considerably more then I can manage. He also drops in some great music vids, you have to listen to the ElectroSwing Beats one it's superb. And then @sweetscience , an account which has fascinated me since I was fortunate enough to come across him. He does incredible music shows with a heady mix of tracks, and in This Art in the Woods you can listen to his music, along with the poetry of @platosgroove - which is just awesome and works so well with the back track. The entire post caused an explosion of Awesome from my computer - music, poetry and incredible pictures @sweetscience created during an incredible and dangerous night in the woods. I have no words, my brain rebooted trying to absorb the incredibleness of this post. And then I head over to my super chilled musical genius buddy @avesa blog and he's blowing up Steemit all over, this Cypress Hill vs Fairly Odd Parents and Thriftworks is beyond genius - my head has now truly exploded at the incredible, awesome creative talent on Steemit. Some do it with words, other pictures - and even more do it with music and sound. Humbled. And even more creative musical talent blew me away with Battlescar Balistics where the incredible Poetry of @battleaxe is rapped into a musical frenzy by @enginewitty - so outstandingly good on all counts.

I keep finding new accounts on Steemit to enjoy as well, there is always so much content to enjoy - finding it as always is so hard but it's there - and that's why I love to share. In this post Cultivate My Presence by @coachjj I found profound meaning in the verse she shared, lifting and supporting words cost nothing but can do so much. In this post Huntingdon Beach by @mcoinz79 I really enjoyed the incredible sunny views and amazing Surfboards - with how cold it has been this week anything that warms me up is very much worth it! And when you want cheering up, there is always a post to do it this one My Cat Red made me grin, especially the cat laid out warming itself in front of the wood burner, such fun from @redheadpei . Learning is an important part of Steemit for me, and here Cool apps to make class activities awesome I learnt about clever educational games you can create yourself to help children to learn, impressive content by @alvinauh . And we can all learn from experienced users this post Papa's Advice for New Users where @robertandrew shares some very good advice we can all learn from.

I never seem to be far from great writers on Steemit, this Six word writing contest by @anjkara is an inspired way to encourage people to interact together. And then @snook came up with an amazing We all write contest where she started a story and encouraged people to add chapters in the comments below - it worked really well and even I had a go! You can read the full story easily laid out here. Meanwhile @mikesthoughts told me to Forget the rules and live life a little in an amazing picture story recounting his previous travel adventures. Poetry can stir up many emotions, and this piece hyperborean by @carmalain7 astounded me both for the length and also the way it still manages to flow perfectly. And if you are feeling in the mood to do a little writing yourself, check out the Weekend Freewrite with 3 prompts which must present quite a challenge doing 3 x 5 minute write building a story from 3 different prompts.

Of course I am not the only person dealing with snow, @saffisara has been getting around it as well and in this post Winter Came Finally I enjoyed seeing her snow filled photography and her lovely little puppy Bobby playing in it. And even @crazybgadventure has been enjoying the Brass Monkey Weather although it froze the diesel in his 4x4 which is really cold to me! And @baby07 keeps soldiering on, this photo of Greatkid and his Lego was lovely to see with her boy looking so happy. I also got to Spend a day on a cruise liner with @arrliinn a post packed with colourful photographs and text it was like being on the ship with her. And I have been impressed with the artistic talents of @latino.romano in this post drawing a toucan on sticky notes

Once again my good friend @huslein.slash continues to delight with his art, in Sad emotion of Simon Pegg he captures perfectly the spirit of this versatile actor and a firm favourite of mine in films like Hot Fuzz and Sean of the Dead. On a very different subject line @lilyraabe continues to amaze with her I just went to prison series where she recounts the work she is doing in prison working directly with the prisoners on a weekly basis and trying to get 27 of them to learn and work together to eventually create an hour long piece of live theatre about the origin of unprovoked American violence.

It seems no week can pass without my finding another amazing piece of charitable work being done by a selfless member of the Steemit community. Today I came across this post Steemit Ultimate Challenge where @emjoe recounts his journey on Steemit since December 2017. What really struck me though is he got a very good reward for a post, but didn't use the earnings for himself - he used them to purchase a water tank for a couple in his community that desperately needed one. Quite amazing selfless actions, you can't help but congratulate someone who is so willing to do so much for their community. We can of course do our own little bit to support charity accounts, by upvoting @youarehope posts or donating to the account, and also supporting charity posts that give the post rewards to charity like YouareHope ThankFul Thursday Donation Report by @fishyculture

I ended my week on Steemit with another super fun morning session of All Play Friday with @topkpop , another amazing show with superb music from original Steemit musicians, super fun chat in the discord and more competitions to win Steem with quiz's and even a Gif posting competition. She's quite a busy character, as I learned in this post What I have been upto and no All Play Friday next week because it's her daughters Birthday - I hope she has a wonderful day.

To close my journey this week I bring updated news of @fulltimegeek's Troll Quest, we now have a coordinator for the support of soldiers in this quest, in this post Every Quest Needs a Cleric or Healer outlines how everyone that would support the Troll Banishing quest can do safely - by countering the down flags suffered by the soldiers with our own upvotes. @anomadsoul has a curation trail set up on SteemAuto , he will be carefully following the battle and countering flags as and when needed so you can automatically follow and support that way. Or you can manually choose the upvotes to follow using Upvote tracker and adjusting the date range accordingly.

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So ends this weeks Vlog, it's been another busy one and definitely interesting with all the snow and ice to deal with. But one thing is for sure, all you wonderful content creators here on Steemit are very truly

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