Surprisingly, following yesterday’s comment from my ‘e-heckler’, we’ve been drawn into a little good-natured email sparring that I have to admit I’ve rather enjoyed. Needless to say I vehemently, but graciously defended myself, giving out a small amount of stick as well, and I’m sure in our current spirit of Anglo-Irish relations, he won’t mind if I quote his latest reply, which made me laugh out loud (apologies for the editing, G, but we wouldn’t want to bore our readers, would we):

‘I enjoyed reading your response and I think it would be wrong to say that I am taking this thing entirely too seriously…in fact I have found it quite a laugh, and I enjoyed being “outraged of Ballydehob”…but it was all meant in that Irish thing called “slagging” - ie half serious leg pulling carried out in apparent deadly earnest. You seem to be a good laugh and take it very well and I agree some of my points are bonkers [Ed: hmmm..taking exception to my comment on Irish birds peut etre??], but the point of a little debate is to try and boost up your case as much as possible. I agree with your friend, the blog is humorous and well written and frankly going through it was a good read, you should definitely keep it up.. .Anyway I’m just off now to inspect the length of my nearest pier…I intend to give it a stroll tommorrow if the weather holds’

Ha! See, I told you I love the Irish!

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