Thanks , Marie

Marie Starr gave a kind comment to the Girls' toys and boys' toys rant below so I went to look at her own blogs.
Serendipitously, one of her blogs is called Serendipity3 which happens to be a word I have deformed into one of my email account names. She has some really good images if you navigate round her blogs and I like everything that I've heard of, in terms of books and music and films, in her profile. So thanks a lot Marie.
It is both welcome and really unusual for this blog to get comments that don't turn out to be adverts for obscure pharmaceutical products that you can buy online.
The "pink" and "blue" thing really exercised my rage to the point that I felt that I had to edit that blog to death so as not to sound like a lunatic. It probably still sounded like a lunatic, but a hobbled one.
However, reading through my own blogs, I realise that the concepts of "deadpan" or "sarcasm" don't translate well to the blogsphere. The typos are bad enough. (You'd imagine that the spellchecker had never been invented.) Combine the typos with deliberately silly images - such as the rendered ones below and the Christmas ones - some of which I had the sense to delete - and comments that feel wry at the time of writing but look dumb on the page..... So apologies to everyone else as well.

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