Seeing as I'm too tight to go dial-up and mail out I'm going to need to do my various thanks and apologies on this here page (wot, you mean people use email for other things, like jokes and conversation? Pffft!).

So thanks to Anja and our Danish correspondent John Fogde for their Toby Litt recommendations. Only trouble is, they came up with different suggestions. So that's two more books for me to buy.

And I'm sorry Graybo, I didn't mean to make you paranoid, it was just an expression. Believe me, if I heard other bloggers bad-mouthing you or your rather fine jacket, I'd be the very first tittle-tattle to stir the shit raise the alarm, as I hope you'd realise.

But before I get off my knees I should perhaps sustain my grovelling position and plead mercy on my soul for thinking Bobbie hadn't updated his blog since November when in fact he'd changed URL to here months ago. Whoops, and indeed, a daisy. Must update my sidebar soon.

I guess this represents a good as opportunity as any to mention Bobbie also has a new project on the go - PolitX a community 'leftlog'. Because political activism isn't just for one nice day out in London a year, you know.