A couple of days ago, I got caught up in a discussion with a complete stranger on Facebook.  We had both commented on a mutual friend, Stuart’s status, regarding his loathing for all the sports coverage in the media here.  The stranger was called Paul and we discussed our love of tennis and Wimbledon.

The next morning I was tagged on Facebook by my online buddy, Emily.  It transpired that Paul was also an old school friend of her’s (though she had no connection to my friend Stuart!) and she was thrilled that her two FB friends had connected via a third party!  I was quite amazed at the connection, and Paul and I started up another discussion under Emily’s status.  It turned out that Paul had since discovered yet another common link, my old school friend, Mark.  We found all this very amusing and decided to become Facebook friends ourselves!  It’s definitely a small world!

Here’s how we link together:

• Stuart is the brother of my friend, Christine.  Paul and Stuart worked together.
• Mark is an old school friend of mine.  Paul met Mark through a different job.
• Emily and I connected via Twitter a few years ago, but we have yet to meet up in real life.  Paul and Emily are old school friends.

On regaling this story to my colleagues, we got talking about Six Degrees of Separation and The Kevin Bacon Rule.  It transpired that I can indeed connect to Kevin Bacon via six steps.  Here they are:

1. I used to work with (and I’m still FB friends with)…
2. Karen McGarrity, who has an award-winning actress sister called…
3. Kathleen McDermott, who made her acting debut in Morvern Callar, starring with…
4. Samantha Morton, who starred in Minority Report with….
5. Tom Cruise, who starred in A Few Good Men with…
6. Kevin Bacon

Can any of my readers connect to Kevin Bacon in six steps or less?  (It helps if you have a celebrity friend!)

This reminded me of a blogging meme I noticed a while back, that I’ve always wanted to participate in, but have just never got round to doing…… until now that is! 


It’s called Six Degrees of Blogging, and it’s the brainchild of Julia from Work Wife Mom Life.  Here’s how it works:

• Start on your own blog
• Click on a link to another blog. On that blog, click a link to another blog,  that leads to another and another til you get to 6 clicks.
• Once you arrive on your “six degrees” blog, leave a comment saying “Hey! Found you through six degrees of blogging.  Your are featured on my blog! (Leave your blog URL so they can find you.)
• THEN, on your own blog, write a super quick post that includes the Six Degrees Button and a quick blurb saying who you found and something nice about them and/or their blog.
• Encourage your readers to stop by their blog as well and leave some comment love!

Here’s how I did it:

1. I clicked on a recent commenter – See Foxes?
2. On this blog I clicked on a button link to Airing My Dirty Laundry by The Whispering Writer
3. On this blog I clicked on a button link to blog network The Secret Is In The Sauce
4. I clicked the link for their featured blogger of the day – The Articulate Ramblings of the Attorney-At-Mom
5. From this blog (which certainly deserved to be featured on SITS!) I clicked on a blog feed link to Mommy Words.
6. From this blog I clicked on my final destination……. the last person to comment on Mommy Words before me….. The Kitchen Witch.

 The Kitchen Witch is written by former teacher, writer and chef, Dana, who provides an ecclectic mix of delicious recipes, vivid memories, parenting info and beautiful photographs. 

This was my first visit to the Kitchen Witch, but I was certainly impressed and will most definitely be back.  I particularly want to try out some of her mouth-watering recipes, especially her Chicken Parmesan Burgers.  (Yummers!)

Why don’t you give this fun meme a try?   It’s a great way of finding new and interesting sites!