Votes for women! Vote for Mary!

Friends, a request: please vote for the Mary on the Green project, to get a statue to Mary Wollstonecraft on Newington Green. If you haven't already done so, please visit http://communityforce.natwest.com/project/2478, register, and vote for us. It is free, will only take a couple of minutes, and could net the project £6000. This will pay for several abseiling lesbians slices of whiskey cake.

It has been a good Wollstonecraft week:

• an interview with another local journalist, in Mary's pew, no less (awaiting publication); 
• a recce to Parliament, with Mary on the Green collaborators; 
• a surprise seminar (the convenor said, "You were in the Islington Tribune!"); 
• mutual-admiration-society coffee with the StokeyLitFest originator, Liz Vater; 
• a random friendly photographer; 
• several books (purchased: a solid 1976 edition of the Scandinavian Letters; borrowed: Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer; read: Ariel, last perused in deepest adolescence); 
• too much time on Twitter....

And I also note that the Google Doodle for Friday was of the Disney animator Mary Blair, which I hope augurs well for her namesake.

Image: That is one of the logos for Natwest Communityforce. Yes, really, with 1970 decor. But we can imagine it as Mary, Fuseli, and Mrs F.