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25/08/09

Not to be outdone by my fellow blog writers, I feel that I too should comment on the recent scandal that has dragged the good name of Hobo Bonobo through the mire.
I have little to add except that while some of the content of this website could be deemed offensive, so could almost all humour, being based, as it generally is, in contention. However we have always tried to err on the side of the ridiculous in the hope of not being taken too seriously. In light of her death (and possibly before hand too), the Mollie Sugden content was quite offensive, and as people were being upset by it, I did not object to being requested to remove it, particularly as it had somehow become quite highly ranked by Google and had frequently been mistaken for a genuine article by Mollie Sugden fans.

And that by now must be enough said about that.

In other news, I don't know what's going on. I've been away from home quite a bit recently, and as the work in which I have been engaged is fairly exhausting, I have been quite worn out physically and mentally for a few weeks. In this weakened state, I have only looked at the news a couple of times. Several times I have been tempted to visit the BBC news website, but something has made me stop, and I suspect that something is a fear of being made anxious or upset by the tirade of negative reporting on which most news organisations seem to thrive.

However I am aware that England just won the Ashes for the first time in some or other number of years. I don't take any credit for this, as I didn't in any way lend my support to England's campaign. I don't hate cricket - I suspect that I would quite like it if I gave it the time, but time seems so precious and cricket seems to take up so much of it. Regardless of my lack of contribution to England's cricketing victory, I am still quite pleased about it. I'm just not sure why. I'm not massively into nationalism, and I know we English are all supposed to be very ashamed of parts of our history, but on the other side of it I do think that if you can't take any pride in your country or community's achievements, you're sort of turning your back on the idea of society and community, and regardless of how frequently one finds one despises one's fellow man, I think that would be a pity.

In other activities, I have been reading lots of Georgette Heyer novels recently, which are romantic novels written in and about the fifties and set in the eighteenth century (for the main part). They are mostly set in an almost invented period of history, when men all wore tight yellow pantaloons and tied their cravat in the oriental style, while young innocent heiresses frequently ran away from home, contracted undesirable engagements or arranged false hijackings along the post road. The stories often run down similar lines, but the characters are so engaging, and the author very witty, and I am very pleased that there are a great many of these books, which I would recommend to any female of a reading age. The women in my family are all addicted to them, and many has been the Christmas where you would have seen my grannie, my aunt, my mother, my sister and myself all simultaneously reading Georgette Heyer books.

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Great site - thanks for the plug! Comment By: Georgette Heyer, 25 Aug 2009, Rating: 5/5

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