[ellee seymour] of greece and carving knives

Sometimes I don't know if Ellee is putting us on or if she's for real:

And of course, the Greeks invented many things so important in our lives today, including the wheel, which Shirley Valentine reminds us of so brilliantly.

To show it's no fluke, she goes on to explain the origins of her name:

Did you know there was an Ellee in Greek mythology? I have seen a unique painting of it in a restaurant in Volos. Mythology says that I have a brother called Frixos and our father was a Greek God who remarried ...

This is brilliant stuff. But Ellee's appearance in a certain category of a recent awards competition, inviting us to ban knives, was a piece de resistance, not unlike Lord Nazh's definitive and highly acclaimed climate change post:

With our knife culture increasing, surely we should be banning their sale from shops. They should be as difficult to buy as guns. Those who require them for countryside pursuits or any genuine activity will have to prove it, get a letter of consent from local police.

The mind drifts to this early evenng conversation:

"Tea's not on the table, love."

"Couldn't get a consent form from the rozzas today. You'll have to eat spam instead."

"I don't like spam!"

"Shh, dear, don't cause a fuss. My blog eats spam - 343 eaten today. It loves it."

The thing with Ellee is, she's so genuine. I don't think she has disingenuity in her vocabulary. but it does produce some very heartfelt girlishness and many people like that style. I do.

Often people come to our blogs not for the most apparent reasons and I think this could partly be so with Lady Ellee.

May she blog on forever.