An ally across the world.

I've just found an internet ally: a blog called Thinking with my Fingers turns out to be written by another feminist mother of two children who likes to play pretend! She's been doing it a long time though and so she might think that I'm not an ally but an internet nemesis.

Alan Macdougall's internet nemesis is Alan Macdougall. Alan said

Damn. A reasonable and polite nemesis.
Where’s the dramatic tension?

(As it happens that comment was the first hit that created my addiction to reading blogs. I'm reading blogs for just that kind of pithy witty tidbit of human condition).