2007: The Year So Far

I come back to the land of the Blog after a few days absence and look around. So much has happened.

Marly Youmans and Jeff Ford are reading exotic and wonderful-sounding books from the far east (Marly has committed herself to writing a set of appreciations of the works of little-known authors this year and the first one was mine, which was so overwhelmingly kind that I reacted rather like some daft actress who overdoes things at the Oscars);

Snailtales has opened the year with two fascinating posts on the way a slug eats algae off a tree and news of a book composed of articles from science blogs and compiled by A blog Around The Clock which sounds very interesting;

Twitches has written a poem about snails (yes!) which is well up to her usual magnificent standard;

while Gordon McCabe has started off a new universe in his living room using instructions garnered from the web. It seems to be going quite well so far.