Amazon blues

Does anyone out there have any advice about how to persuade Amazon to remove reviews that are really (no, really) out of order?

Anne Fine wrote a book for children called Bill's New Frock: Bill wakes up one morning to discover that not only is he a girl, he is treated like one, and it is no fun.

Over at Amazon.com, "a reader" has got quite over-excited at this idea, and provided a couple of pieces of creative writing in the guise of reviews. To give you the flavour of the thing, one is entitled Its breast growing time Nicole!. And Amazon are not responding to on-line feedback asking for them to be removed.

In itself this is mildly amusing. But we are, or at least, durham_rambler is, responsible for Anne's web presence, and we know that a large number of children look her up on the net, so if anyone knows how to attract Amazon's attention, we'd be very grateful for advice.

Southernness

kelpercomehome has at last reached the Falkland Islands in her account of her travels: wonderful descriptions of life out at the edge of the world, among the saints and the penguins (no, go read it, all will be explained).

Still further south, you fall over the edge into the SF territory of the British Antarctic Survey. The Guardian provides a description of the Survey's new home, with "artist's impressions" of a series of pods on legs, strung into a mechanical caterpillar; the night view is particularly evocative.

Sheepfolds

We spent Saturday with friends in Cumbria, celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary - an excellent day in excellent company. And when fellow-guests asked us if we planned to drive straight home on Sunday, we said no, we were going to look for some sheepfolds first.

Potts Gill Fold is a rectangular enclosure, near a farm. Each corner has been built over a massive boulder. You'd think it was an old farm building - particularly well made, perhaps, but made for use: there's a pile of sawn logs in one corner. Which is true, but not the whole truth...
( More about the Sheepfolds project, with more pictures )