Here's a post I wrote some years ago for an authors' cooperative blog, in which I make monthly musings loosely connected with writing. Reposted for posterity and I've linked to the original as the comments are worth reading too, especially those from my late lovely writer friend Jan Needle.
There are, apparently, a maximum of only six degrees of separation between anyone on the planet and Kevin Bacon – he of the irritating EE adverts: who says you can’t? Me, Kevin. I say you can’t. I say it’s enough to put anyone off EE, though the reception in our village is beyond awful anyway.