Blogwatch

Congratulations...

Mike, whose consistently excellent blog Troubled Diva - a continual source of inspiration for Silent Words Speak Loudest - celebrated its fifth birthday on Monday. If you're unfamiliar with Troubled Diva (and let's face it, you really shouldn't be), then Mike's produced a very handy condensed overview of the blog's history - just look for posts referring to The Five In Five Days Project.

Welcome...

The Policeman's Blog - self-explanatory, really. The discovery of this site (via a national newspaper) has led to the realisation that there's actually a whole host of cop blogs - just take a look at the sidebar...

Meanwhile...

Two fantastic music features to have kicked off in the past few days:

On Oh! RussL is in the process of undertaking the Going Deaf For A Fortnight endurance test pioneered by Pete - fourteen gigs in fourteen nights...

And on Sweeping The Nation, for the whole of November, Simon is inviting one blogger or musician a day to write about a song they feel is criminally underrated and deserves to be more widely known. He's kicked it off himself with David Ackles' 'Waiting For The Moving Van'.

Elsewhere...

As if pre-emptively partaking in Simon's Songs To Learn And Sing feature, Del enthuses about Spiritualized's splendid 'Stop Your Crying'.

The Overnight Editor goes undercover.

And finally...

Betty offers her readers a glimpse into the future - "HRH Elizabeth II dies unexpectedly at the age of 94 after a gin binge. A disgraced Prince Charles lives in exile on the Isle Of Man with his long term girlfriend, Beyonce Knowles, so Prince William ascends to the throne".