I've been reading Notes and Comments for some time. I've even been showing some of Ophelia's posts to the boys. As a result, she's fast becoming one of the Big Fella's intellectual heroes; he rehearses her arguments and then deploys them against his religious peers. They don't know what's hit them!
I started visiting Small Town Scribbles after reading her Normblog profile (that man should get an award for services to the blogosphere. He did? Oh, good). As for Scribbles, well, in her own words:
Left-wing, atheist, insomniac, female. Earnest working-class outlook. Poncy middle-class sensibilities. Big City pretensions, Small Town reality. Likes cats.Likes cats? Aw hell, read her anyway.