“You can’t be too careful!” II

Google’s currently showing 14,900 hits for the above phrase (explained below). A minor internet phenomenon. Most of these seem to be on blogs, picked up AFTER PeriodOne’s audacious scoop. No hat tips though. I seriously need to get some more readership going, especially as the British press has been dominated over the Easter weekend by a mega sleaze scandal in which bloggers of various political hues were involved, chiefly this Guy. 10,000 hits a day are not to be sniffed at. But PeriodOne seems to be very much a blog of the old-school (‘old’ being in this case a relative term). Whimsical and gently meandering. Or, to paraphrase the author of Catchgraph: ‘longwinded’. I’m not sure whether there’s room for such low-impact writing on the relentlessly high-impact internet. Ah well. I suppose it won’t surprise readers to learn that my world has today been rocked by the fact that my windowbox lettuces have germinated. I was going to post a video, but the resultant media frenzy would have been simply too much …