This week, in place of my usual post, I’m going to ask you for some help.
If you’re a regular visitor to ‘Mrs. Peabody Investigates’, or even if you just drop by every now and then, would you mind filling out a short, anonymous survey on the blog? Pretty please? It has just nine questions, and mainly involves ticking boxes.
THE SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED 🙂
The survey is linked to my day job as a UK academic: we’re exploring the impact of our research beyond a university audience, for example in blogs or in the media. And your opinion really counts – whether you’re a reader, blogger, publisher, translator, author, bookseller or anything else to do with the wonderful world of crime!
In return, I offer you oodles of gratitude and this picture of an adorable kitten. I’ll be adding an extra kitten for every 10 people who take the survey…
No, not a kitten. Walnut whip reward by special request 🙂
Cute bunny by special request
Puppy from dooziedog.com *melts*
By special request: otters holding hands 🙂
THANK YOU!
Mrs. Peabody Investigates 
Adorable! Have done survey, please send kitten asap. Don’t worry about the walnut whip, have my own stash…seriously though, brilliant psychology to use kitten pics, you would be a very dangerous woman if you ever decided to start a cult or indulged in other forms of mind control like getting people to get their tax returns in….
Thank you so much, blighty. Can’t thank you enough. Fabulous response so far – over 50 in little over an hour! New kitten has been added 🙂 (And I faithfully promise to use kitten pictures for benign purposes always.)
3rd kitten down may be the cutest thing I’ve ever seen! 🙂
I know! Adorable 🙂
Survey completed! I love the kitten gallery, Mrs. P. It seems to go well with your avatar/profile photo 😉
Thanks so much, Sara – I’m really grateful that you and so many others have taken the time to help out. Puppies coming up shortly…
Love the bunny and the pup 🙂 Enjoyed the survey. Great site.
Thanks very much indeed for taking part and for the kind words. Glad you like the bunny – puppy combo 🙂
I’ll have the black and white puddy tat with the big eyes, please. Always happy to do a survey. Busy working on formulating my own for my academic second life…
I don’t think I can pick any one… Thanks for taking the survey, Vanda, and let me know when I can return the favour!
Black and white kitty and the puppy get my vote.
Opps. Blah blah blah something intelligent about crime fiction blah… KITTIES!
🙂 Well it is late – I think we can be forgiven. MOAR KITTIES x
Omigod, these kittens! And what was that survey about anyway? I’ve lost it all, now entranced by fantastic felines. And kittens are even cuter, all of those baby tabbies with big eyes. I’m sunk.
I want to rush right out and adopt kittens; then reality of allergies dawns on me, so I have to enjoy from afar.
And, by the way, hope the survey results are somehow transmitted here, or at least the overview.
And now for puppies! What about baby otters? One of the cutest photos ever online was of two baby otters floating on their backs in a pool holding each other’s paws.
Thanks for taking part, Kathy – really appreciated. And I know – those kittens are enough to make us lose all of our critical faculties! By the way, I think I’ve seen that picture of the otters (I’ll have a look now…)
I’m leaving the survey open for a bit (over 150 responses so far which is just amazing), and will then take a look at the results. I’ll feed back at some point once I’ve digested them all, and got back from a trip I’m taking shortly.
Not sure if it’s *the* photo, Kathy, but otters-holding-hands-pic has now been posted!
Awwww! Such cute otters. Baby animals are just the cutest.
So glad to hear you got 150 responses so far. I’m not surprised given the quality of the blog posts here and the always-interesting discussions.
Thanks, Kathy. I’ve been bowled over by the response rate. It really has been fantastic.
Great!
Amazing quantity of kittens!!