I am TOTALLY supporting Mills & Boon’s protest against a ban on kissing, which Virgin trains are trying to impose at a railway station in my region. This is not just sour grapes because Virgin Trains did their very best to make me miss the RNA Awards lunch last week (when the train I was on stopped inexplicably outside Tring for an hour and a half, making a bit of a mockery of them rushing everyone onto their new high speed service without allowing a moment to say goodbye), but because kissing is one of the few things I adore that isn’t bad for you. Smoking? Yep, ban it and its 40 different kinds of cancer-causing chemicals and take the tough love on the chin. But kissing.....?
Just reading
this article makes me want to go down to Crewe station right now (and that’s not a sentence I find myself saying very often) and snog in a leisurely, unhurried manner, however Sarah Ritherdon, who's Mills & Boon's uber-fabulous Director of Publishing, has a more intelligent response...
“Romantic embraces and passionate kisses are a vital part of life and should never be discouraged. We believe that attempting to restrict passion to certain times or areas is a denial of the human right to express love. ”Amen. And plenty of people out there agree, if the growing group on facebook is anything to go by. Go and add your support! (or your face, or whatever you do on facebook...)
(That warm little hollow beneath the earlobe is my area of choice though...)