i dunno -- you go away for a couple of months and come back to find the blogoverse has gone to pieces without you.

or maybe there's something going around... i was seriously contemplating exactly the same thing just this afternoon...

Hello Sal.

Just taking a breather while I try to remember how to make money. Or at least earn it anyway.

And, er, I thought you HAD given up.

Can't believe I just found you as you're giving up...as a mother of three and stepmother of two I was looking forward to some good tips. Oh well, good luck.
Best
Helena

www.helenafrithpowell.com

Hello Helena. Sorry to disappoint. Just needed some catching up time with myself. A broad hint: I think February looks busier over here...

not so far.

Would you like to naff off then? yes, please do. Don't come back in a hurry now. Empty the raisins from your head. aAd if I ever catch you on my blog again, you malicious gibbon, it'll be the worse for your wife and her washloads of smelly boring underpants. Or whatever it was you wrote so magically about.

No offence.

No great loss.

Yes, good riddance! ;-)

No room fo malice on the blogs.

Cut it out he's just a boring creep. :-)

Boring creep or not, he's malicious.I bet there was no family anyway. He goes to the launderette on his own to wash his underpants.

He's hardly worth dignifying with a comment:

'Started blog following my nose. Now my nose says stop. My ears listen and my heart says 'Yes''.

His 'nose' is wanting somewhat. And always has been. Evidently! :-)

He says he's all ears so what became of his nose.

Spiteful. What's she done to you, you ought to get down to the WI and slag off your neighbours or have they thrown you out already?

no room for the likes of you who are you referring to?

To speaking as a parent. He is abusing people. He is the sort that looks after a child 2 hrs a week then thinks so much of himself he opens a blog and goes around publishing his nasty opinions.

For the avoidance of doubt, the previous 9 comments (and one I have deleted) were left on the night of 3/4 Feb by visitors who all share the same IP address (172.200.72.63). Judging by my referral log this little sixty three minute ‘conversation’ appears to be the result of a supportive comment left by me at
Rachel of North London.

Comments 1, 4 and 6 of the series are self-confessedly the work of 'A' list supertrollette ‘fjl’, and seeing as all the other commenters appear to share her computer I leave you all to draw your own conclusions. She is, it would seem, not quite the twee aesthete she likes to portray herself as on her own blog.

More amusingly, I detect a guilty conscience, since she is not named or identified in my original comment.

I have decided to leave her work in place as I think it makes her look worse than me, a fate she probably deserves.

Oh dear, sorry about the troll, and the troll's sockpuppets, and sorry to hear that you have stopped blogging.

I hope that you come back soon. We could all do with a break sometimes though, so have a lovely blogfree spring.

No worries - I'm made of stern stuff. And no apologies required. I have enjoyed the rest and I'm beginning to feel a return coming on.

Curiously she hasn't been back since. Gone to find a better class of argument, ike spect.

And as an afterthought, I note that she threatens both me and my family. Nice lady.