"How will I ever find my way home?"

It's never a bad thing to find new blogs to read, right?
With that in mind & because I like an experiment now & again, it's time to have a go at The 6 degrees of Blogeration as pioneered by Swiss Toni.

For those of you not in the know, the plan is to take six steps away from here via people's links & then find a way back here using a different route.
For the purpose of getting started I've chosen the 6th commenter on my last post as a place to kick off, that of course was SouthEast London's tidy-arsed Harry Potterite; Charby.

Next I'll choose a link on her Bloglist. Despite being enticed by Tittybiscuit, I'm going for Ruggywrites cos my old school mate The Gentle Giant was known as Ruggy (because of the presence of a deep pile carpet on his head).
Now known as Spazzymoto's revenge, the author has been rudely awakened to witness a dripping tap. This has not made her happy & amid much excellent swearing she is also quite concerned about the neighbours seeing her undergarments. I do fear for the EFL character who is in line to have the world's tiniest washing machine forcibly introduced to their rectum.

Anyway, time to move on & from the frankly gargantuan list of links I have been seduced by Chuffing Heck.
I shall say right here, right now I like Chuffing Heck. Dubs, the author, has a very amusing way with words & has made me chuckle several times. The experiment as already proved fruitful & I'll be going back to this fella again. Here's a couple of snippets.
On beating the French to the Olympics: "Am I alone in wanting to see Chirac's face when he was told of the result? We're talking a Portillo moment here. M. Chirac is blessed with a particularly expressive face which one can only imagine going through the internal agony of having lost to the British : a bit like a haddock in a suit slipping out a wet fart. My only real sadness is that it isn't on film."

Tennis: "And why are the standards for being considered "A Character" so low in tennis? John McEnroe was famed for his outbursts but there are far more creative tantrums played out dozens of times over one week of the football season. Jimmy Connors was considered an amusing man because he would occasionally pull a funny face at the crowd. If the Krankies had played mixed doubles, they would be considered gods today."

It's reet good stuff & he dwells in Yorkshire. Ace.

He doesn't however have a list of links but I found a link & followed that for part 3 of the journey.
That led me to JonnyB's private secret diary. An expose of Norfolk village life, JonnyB's blog seems perfectly fine & may well be worth further investigation. Much blood was spilt in the creation of his most recent post. Some by "perhaps the most rubbish mugger in the entire history of that activity, who took one look at me, started an exchange of pleasantries then fell off the kerb, injuring himself badly in the process" & some by a friend who had "accidentally nailed her hand to the garden wall"! In the interests of time, a more in-depth nose will have to wait for another day.

Onwards to step 4 then.
All's well, Jezebel being my next port of call.
Jezebel is a self proclaimed "future sensation (with an overactive imagination). Her friend was robbed at a stand up comedy competition for women by a man (sort of), she also got dead jammy & ended up in the Gold circle at Live8.
Her links are very big, & feature a lot of the same one's I've been seeing since I left Charby's place. I feel like I've just landed in a different circle. It's all quite time consuming too & I still have 2 more steps to take before I can even think about getting back to my place.

Next up then; Unlucky man.
Living up his name, I find nothing immediately jumps out at me & my patience is at wafer thin level, so I swiftly move on. I do feel quite bad for not exploring much though.

Right. No.6. My destination. A bit council.
Now I'm sorry but I didn't even finish one post. It may all be good stuff but when a man in his thirties writes without capital letters & paragraphs, etc. I don't feel I can invest my time trying to decipher it.

Now I have to get home. I have a problem here. A bit council only links to one other blog & that is JonnyB's private secret diary. So I shall return to Unlucky man & choose another link from there, ok?

Turns out this was an absolute masterstroke times 2.
A free man in Preston appears to be an exceedingly good blog. I only read 2 posts but it was well written, well observed & funny. I'll be going back there too.
And in his links I spied Danger! High postage, which I know Swiss links to. Let's hope it works both ways.

It does (& Lordy B too) & they link to me. So I'm home! Huzzah.

In conclusion, it's a bit of a drawn out process & the fifth & sixth sites you go to probably have to be really eyecatching to stand a chance. That said, I know I've found at least 2 new blogs that I can see myself reading all the the time & maybe a couple more after some further browsing.
So it's all good news really, eh?
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Now I'd like all readers new & old to join me in wishing my oldest surviving friend & top notch commenter, The one & only Duke Of Jokes, a very, very happy 35th Birthday.
All together now...
Happy birthday to you.....