We Are Back

by Andrew on October 30, 2010

Its going to take a few days to pick up were Anna left off when she decided to finally enjoy her retirement from blogging.

We fully intend to continue highlighting and acting on cases like Nick Hogan jailed for infringing the rules of the nanny state on smoking, and that of Sheila Martin hounded by the Green Police in Sandwell.

Hopefully we can maintain the same high standards as ‘Anna Raccoon’

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{ 35 comments }

1 Keith Hart October 30, 2010 at 14:54

Glad to see you back!

2 Keith Hart October 30, 2010 at 14:54

Glad to see you back!

3 Lettuce Prey October 30, 2010 at 15:55

Welcome back!

4 Lettuce Prey October 30, 2010 at 15:55

Welcome back!

5 QM October 30, 2010 at 16:15

Welcome back indeed

6 Fred Thrung October 30, 2010 at 16:21

Sheer joy to see the site surface in my RSS reader. I left it there on the offchance something might reappear one day.
Any chance you can persuade Anna to write the occasional piece on expat life in France? We didn’t read her *just* for the heavy stuff you know.

7 Woodsy42 October 31, 2010 at 10:57: Spot on Fred. It was Anna’s wonderful french pieces and the often humerous but always understanding observations on French life that first attracted me to the blog.
I would still nominate her ‘This is France’ piece, about the highwire act as probably the best piece I read online anywhere in the last year.
Please Anna some guest posts would be lovely.

8 Fred Thrung October 30, 2010 at 16:29

PS
And I hope you’re signing up the monastic community!

9 Bill Sticker October 30, 2010 at 16:31

Another reason to smile today.

10 WitteringsfromWitney October 30, 2010 at 16:54

To coin a phrase: Hello (again) Good Evening and Welcome!

So very pleased with this!

11 Joe Public October 30, 2010 at 17:13

Thank God I didn’t delete the link from Google Reader.

First the resurrection of Obo; now Anna R rises from the ashes. Anybody would think it’s Easter.

12 Dick the Prick October 30, 2010 at 18:52

Hurray!

13 AnnaNonAMoose October 30, 2010 at 18:55

Good to see it back.

Will the entire history of everything blogged there in the past also be resurrected, the archives preserved for research and quotation sources?

14 david morris October 30, 2010 at 20:02

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay !

Its a good day. Welcome back

15 honestbroker October 30, 2010 at 20:33

Anna won’t believe this, but it’s true. I really am pleased to see this blog back; disappointed that its incomparable founder will no longer be gracing us with her pen.

Anna infuriated and captivated me in equal measure. At her best, she was simply sublime; a writer I would kill to be able to emulate: at (for me, at least) her worst, she would wreak fearful havoc with my blood pressure. But perverse though it may seem, writers I actually like do that.

Anna’s pieces on Holly Grieg were incisive, meticulously researched searching and powerfully stated. It was mainly her pieces on the McCanns that gave me apoplexy.

Anna is inimitable; I know nothing about those who will take up her mantle. Their style will inevitably be different from Anna’s, but I’m sure they will do full justice to a fine tradition of blog writing.

I look forward to reading the new pieces. And I may even offer the odd piece of feedback. Over to you.

16 Reverie October 30, 2010 at 22:30

Great news!

17 Mick Turatian October 30, 2010 at 22:50

Fab!

I’m sad, though, that Anna didn’t share her troubles more with her readership because she might have been bouyed up by the support she would have received.

I’m looking forward to this new phase.

18 cynicalHighlander October 30, 2010 at 23:16

Nice to see the site back up and running, lets hope it continues uninterrupted.

19 Demetrius October 31, 2010 at 08:49

‘Ullo, ‘ullo, ‘ullo, what have we here? Hiding all along then? So what have you been doing?

20 Demetrius October 31, 2010 at 08:49

‘Ullo, ‘ullo, ‘ullo, what have we here? Hiding all along then? So what have you been doing?

21 Woodsy42 October 31, 2010 at 10:57

Spot on Fred. It was Anna’s wonderful french pieces and the often humerous but always understanding observations on French life that first attracted me to the blog.
I would still nominate her ‘This is France’ piece, about the highwire act as probably the best piece I read online anywhere in the last year.
Please Anna some guest posts would be lovely.

22 Span Ows October 31, 2010 at 11:03