So it has come to this. I turn my back for 5 minutes and suddenly we become web superstars! Well, hello everyone on this side of the Pacific and the other. The challenge for Joni and me, I suspect, will be to prevent us disgusting all who know us by being disgustingly cute.

Something she-of-the-bayou hasn't mentioned yet is that we've both made pilgrimages to each other's worlds - Joni has come to Australia twice and I've been there once (and will go again in July, hurricanes permitting). Actually, my last visit was made not long after Katrina roared through the Gulf Coast. I can guarantee you that it didn't affect Bourbon Street in New Orleans though - after a night there I had the hangover to prove the bars were still open. What I'm leading up to here is that this trip lead to one of my favourite photos of Joni, posted here, of her at a place called "The Table is Bread" outside of Baton Rouge.

See why I'm willing to brave hurricanes to see her?!?