Sarah Louise Lambert: living proof that women really do talk much more than men

Ok, I admit this post has nothing to do with politics...

I would like to cite Sarah Louise Lambert - aka Tracey Louise - as anecdotal evidence that women really do talk much more than men.

As a man, I can probably manage to speak several hundred words a day. Sarah Lambert must be off the scale - probably tens of thousands of words a day. As a political writer and blogger, I only hit 1,000+ wordcounts if I'm writing an essay to consider a very large subject matter (for example, the economics of the People's Republic of China). But Sarah pulls off lengthy blog-posts every day simply to diarise her daily deeds for the blogosphere. I must admit, I'm mildly impressed by the commitment and the sheer energy of the lass, even if - as a man - I have a limit as to how interested I am in handbags, holidays, relationships and all the usual stuff which most women tend to go on and on about. Depending on whether you're male or female, it's a diary or it's diarr****

Now, Sarah probably is exceptional. She probably is what we might refer to as a 'lioness' kind of a woman. She plays rock guitar, she blogs, she models (including some 'modelling') and she runs her businesses. And above all she probably talks. My point is: even though Sarah probably exceeds the average woman, it is surely a fact that women talk more than men.

All of which begs the question, if you're a man, how do you tame a woman's tongue sufficiently to say and do those things which occasionally a man really must when dealing with a woman?

Being firm? Kissing? Shouting? Hoping that if you wait long enough she will finally pause for breath?

Goodness knows how I would handle Sarah Louise Lambert if I had to deal with her!

When I have a conversation with another man, we can do the whole thing in 5 minutes. When I have a conversation with a woman, it can be at least half an hour discussing feelings before anything practical is agreed.

I remember once speaking with a woman and she said, "So-and-so's just got a new car."

I asked, "Oh, what kind of car is it?"

The woman's reply was, "It's a blue one."

Yes, it's a strange business trying to understand women. They can be a mystery. And they can talk for England.