Yesterday morning I recorded The Sunday Alternative but after last week’s impressive listening figures I held back from uploading it until I returned home from lunch at my dad’s. Although a little slower on the uptake than last week at the same time, by the time I had sent a load of emails and taken Jack for a walk I was equal to last Sunday’s numbers which was pleasing news. It makes working on a Sunday all the more worthwhile and means that it is worth continuing with. My plan for a series of filmed sessions has been given a glimmer of hope so I might have some news on that before long.

Today has been spent researching and writing the third and fourth editions of Shoebox Collection ready for recording, and recording another couple of chapters of the Nathan McKenzie audio book. At some point I want to get under the bonnet of this blog and reorganise things a little; some of the pages need updating and I have stayed with the current layout for quite some time. As a member of the old MySpace school I really should be be changing the appearance of this site at least once a week.

My blog post about Page 3 and breasts came and went with no reaction aside from a couple of Facebook comments and ‘likes’ despite my expecting some feedback from both the for and against camps. There was one response that I received that hadn’t actually occurred to me but made a good point regarding the painting I used as the blog illustration. When I was a youngster I found it odd that the women in these paintings never had pubic hair, maybe they weren’t allowed to be so graphic back then, or maybe the artists found such a thing too difficult to paint. My email correspondent pointed out that the artists were somewhat ahead of their time and these days that painting is an accurate picture of a woman in this era of shaving and waxing. Therefore the painting is normal and a picture of a woman with hair ‘there’ (or indeed seeing it in real life) would be the oddity. Leonardo Da Vinci painted helicopters, they could all see into the future.

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