I have terrible news, my friends. Tuesday, July 13th 2004, will go down as a dark day in the world of international blogging. The storm clouds which have been gathering ominously for some time now, have finally burst, bringing a whole world of pain and torment raining down upon our heads. Our lives may never be the same again. Yes people, it's true...

Lisa's decided to start her own blog.

Obviously I'm not happy. And not just because I know damn well that it'll be better than mine. How am I supposed to give one-sided accounts of our weekends together, when everyone can flip over to Lisa's blog and find out what really happened? Eh? Answer me that. And I feel decidedly uneasy knowing that I've lost my power to merrily delete anything she says.

And what's going to become of this place? It'll be like a new branch of Asda opening just down the road from my little corner shop. Within weeks this blog will be like a ghost town, and I'll be forced to apply for a job collecting trolleys for the enemy (possibly from the front gardens of Brazillian fruit loops, but that's another story).

But let's not get ahead of ourselves. It hasn't happened yet. And being a woman, Lisa's inclined to change her mind at the drop of a hat. She's also admitted that she "couldn't be bothered to read all the steps" required to set up her own blog, so the project is currently on ice. And once I tell her that it's compulsory to put pictures of oneself on one's blog, she may go off the idea entirely.

So fingers crossed everyone. If we stick together, we can weather this storm.