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Here’s something I didn’t know yesterday - my dad is in Wikipedia.

We have healthy competition, me and him. I get married, he gets married*. I go to university, he goes to university. I get a blog, he gets a blog. What can I say, I’m an early adopter.

But lately he’s been overtaking me. He sees me having kids and holding down a busy job and he guns it and overtakes me by writing a book. What’s that all about. It’s just a bunch of words typed on a page for other people to read. I could do that. I could totally do that.

Seriously, though, I am immensely proud, and happy to take a back seat on this.

The French Riviera: A Literary Guide For Travellers is out in paperback in a couple of weeks and you can order it from here in the UK or here in the US.

So now he gets an entry in Wikipedia. It’s like the who’s who of the internet. It’s like he’s more who than me.

While we’re sharing the links, a big This Is This style congratulations to Wendy, who today celebrates one year of blogging on It’s A Life

Now, there are blogs and there are blogs, right? It’s A Life is definitely the latter, and how many sites can you say that about? Nice job Wendy and here’s to another next year.

*Actually Writer’s Moll made me laugh this week when she wrote about a recent trip in France with this line: “I’m doing no better (in French) the next day when a woman thinks I’m suggesting her ducks are sick when I ask if they’re mallards.”

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