I will apologise unreservedly to anyone who took offence by our prank. It was intended entirely as a wind up and not aimed to cause offence.
For those complaining that it was planned, yes it was. The idea was concieved not long after christmas given all the people who took our little xmas blog seriously!!
The vast majority of people have been in touch to say that they thought it was a good joke but for the half dozen people who took offence - sorry.
However, I trust that since we are expected to apologise then the few people who decided to get extremely personal and send very very nasty emails/PMs will now apologise to us.
And incidentally, to the person sending those emails to Cathie, it was not her idea, it was my idea so if you have issues, take them up with me.