I thank you all

Well, what can I say? It’s a great honour to be nominated in the best UK blog category of the 2004 WebLog Awards. To see The England Project listed along side the other excellent nominations just fills me with pride and, I might add, makes me feel very important indeed.

I would like to thank my parents (who have no idea that this site exists), my friends (who also have no idea) and my manager (who I am married to). I would also like to thank those who have nominated me. The cheque, as they say, is in the post (so don’t expect to see it any time soon).

I would also like to pledge my support to all the other UK bloggers who are working so hard behind enemy lines right now. You know who you are. In spite of great danger to themselves they continue to bait the authorities by pointing out the total lack of ability of our political masters, their sexual perversions and their total misunderestimation of how highly we value freedom. A great big tally ho to you all.

I’d like to take this opportunity to recite an enhanced version of The Path that brought me to The England Project, a path that has taken the best part of three years. There have been tears, oh yes. But also joy. And the boredom, oh the boredom.

THE PATH

From the Front Rank,
To the Solent.

From the Solent,
To the Samizdat.

From the Samizdat,
To the Edge.

Then Across the Atlantic,
To Lileks.

And back again,
For The England Project.

I thank you all.