An (obvious) explanation

I've physically had literally an actual barrage of emails/comments etc asking why I signed off my last post with an expletive.

Let me explain for those of you not clever enough to work it out: 'S***' stands for Stephen (the 'S') and Sparkes (the '***'). Stephen Sparkes. My name. The asterisks look very much like sparks to me and I really didn't expect to have to spell it out to you.

I know the blogosphere means my audience is infinitely wider than before but I really didn't expect the practical upshot of that would be to have an audience of yelping primates.

Sometimes I despair, really I do.

S***