Hi All, I’m sorry that for the last couple of weeks this blog hasn’t appeared. Unfortunately I accidentally uploaded them onto the site of a New Zealand couple who immediately disappeared overseas with them. INTERPOL and the good people from MySpace are doing everything they can to retrieve them. This week is diversity week, the week when we should be celebrating each other’s gifts and foibles and yet the foul stench of bigotry still pervades our lives! I was listening to some colleagues discuss an event that had gone awry. They said “it had gone pear shaped”. Pears are a noble fruit favoured in ancient times by Homer and have been enjoyed by all for centuries, yet now this gentle fruit is being vilified for it’s very shape? for shame. Why do we not say it has gone “Leyland p76 shaped” or “new coke shaped”? In the spirit of Diversity week embrace the pear, shape and all. Perhaps this is an education issue? Here at UQ library we have 101 items which are returned when “Pear” is entered into a catalogue keyword search. Next time you hear someone deriding the shape of the pear, direct them to one of these books and the world will be a better place. We are celebrating Library week this week as well, so you’d be killing 2 birds with one stone…. Er.. make that 2 Leyland p76s with one stone (I think Homer mentioned birds too). Marcos