Back to reality

Back from a hugely enjoyable weekend at the Summer Sundae festival in Leicester. My liver hurts. Full review on the way, featuring (amongst other things) tales of rain, real ale, cravats, bloggers being sociable, drunken accosting of band members, loungecore covers of Dead Kennedys' songs and a large length of silver foil tubing. In the meantime, though, I'm afraid you'll have to put up with this holding pattern post.

Four things I'd like to mention in a kind of Blogwatch redux, though:

1. Like Mike, I was delighted to see that Friday's Guardian and yesterday's Independent on Sunday both gave Girl a platform to speak out herself about the furore surrounding her "unmasking". You can read Girl's latest blog post on the subject here.

2. Mike's marvellous Which Decade Is Top For Pops? feature came to an end with a victory for the 1970s. Scroll down for a break-down of and commentary on the results for each decade.

3. Alan of Random Burblings appears to be spending every minute of the day taking in shows at the Edinburgh Festival. Click here and scroll down for a feast of excellent reviews of shows by Rich Hall, Andy Parsons and We Are Klang amongst others.

4. And last but not least, congratulations to Swiss Toni, who's got engaged.