A Minor Concern.

I’m slightly concerned about something. According to Google stats, ‘Hacking at the Holy Grail’ is getting an unusually high number of views remarkably quickly. I have an image of several earnest people eagerly anticipating some lyrical treatise set in the rarefied world of Arthurian legend, or maybe a knowledgeable exposition on a mediaeval conspiracy theory. And what do they find? A silly post about that part of a lady that even ladies don’t talk about, except among themselves and only when they’re adequately fortified with a pint of Bailey’s Irish Cream. Or so I’m told.

Maybe I should explain. The title was the most alliterative I could come up with, given my need to reflect my own attitude to the part in question. Several other options were also fraught with the potential for misinterpretation, and had I gone for a less oblique, more openly functional title, I would have been guilty of showing a lack of imagination. Which wouldn’t have done.

And there’s more. Some of my posts are intended to be taken seriously, while others are tongue-in-cheek. The problem with tongue-in-cheek is that it doesn’t work unless it’s written in a quasi serious style. And that’s something we Brits do a lot of; it’s a national characteristic. So how do people who are not used to it tell the difference? It takes time.

Thank you for listening. I do hope no gaskets were blown along the way. I love the Arthurian legends too, you know, and nobody knows what the Holy Grail is supposed to be anyway. Chretien de Troyes died before he could spill the beans.