Frizz

I’ve been reading Petite Anglaise, one of the blogs I discovered at the beginning of the year on my blog crawl. So I was watching the news today and there was Petite herself having been dooced* for blogging.

*The author of Dooce was fired in 2002 for blogging about her work.

I’m in shock - there are four women on Late Review with a token man.

Can I just say that I am completely loving Quicksilver and I know I’m only half getting it.

I tried on a pair of Crocs today. I have an on going love affair with eccentric shoes and over the years I’ve had them all. I wore Doctor Martins, on their second outing, Palladium’s at university before the trend came and went. I was in Birkenstock’s a good few years before the rest of you caught on. I came to Uggs late due to their ridiculously inflated price in the UK. The Crocs were comfortable, but I’m not sure I wasn’t ‘in between’ sizes, plus no one has any decent colors left - it was either black or red. On the eccentric side I think they top the lot - perhaps only to be worn inside or with very long trousers.

I wanted to say about a friend who is in the middle of the great big ocean in a small sailing boat. It all sounds amazing, he’s managing to keep a blog (the wonders of technology) - 6000 miles of sea.

Lord Levy arrested…

There’s going to be a feature on Greg Clark’s Private Garden’s Bill (Brownfield sites), this evening on ITV’s Tonight with Trevor McDonald.

Judy just emailed to let me know that Adrienne Rich was on Woman’s Hour this morning, listen again here.

The possible relative wrote back and we corresponded all day yesterday, quite exciting really. We haven’t worked out how exactly we are related, but we both believe we are related to a guy called Tom and therefore must be related to each other.

A question on University Challenge - I know, I wasn’t really watching - led to Big R saying she had a relative who taught at Oxford, which led to a search on the internet, which led to her being wrong, but me finding the person anyway, which led to a daughter in the States who lives up the road from where I was last year - I’ve sent an email.*

*Email mysteriously started working again today.