Ooh, how exciting!

I appear to have got an award. Well, a 'Lingy', awarded by David Ker to some of his favourite blogs, which is nice. This is the chap who wanted me to whittle down the creed to 140 characters. Here's a picture of a pink hippopotamus:

It appears that these normally get awarded on Feb 29th, but clearly he got fed up with waiting. Not a great way to start Advent....

On blogging lists, Wikio seems to be leakier than the Home Office with a Conservative spokesman, having brown-enveloped it's top 30's for general and political blogging to two blogs. This is worse than the pre-budget report, I expect everyone involved to be raided by the police with immediate effect.