When Jeffrey launched his blog, I’m sure he realised it would expose him to potential abuse, as well as a few jokes. And it appears some bloggers have had their fair share of fun along these lines.

Only now, according to Sunday Times columnist Bryan Appleyard, it is time to stop, enough is enough. It’s time for “The Guys” to end their “full-bloodied guerilla campaign”. Bryan confesses to being guilty of this too and says:

“I fear this is getting out of hand and becoming a full-blooded guerilla campaign. One recent comment by Jack turned out to be a savage and rather brilliant acrostic. Now look, The Guys, Jeffrey is fair game, but do we really want to turn his magnificent blog into an occasion for our childish humour? Do we really want to drive out every serious fan, swamping the site with subversive questions like ‘What happened to Bill Oddie?'”

Jeffrey seems to take it all in good heart, according to the comments he posted on Bryan’s site. He is doing lots of good work too; so far this year he has raised almost £1 million for various charities – and there are still another 14 charity auctions to be held before the end of the year. He certainly deserves our sympathy for taking part in a charity swim with Rolf Harris and George Galloway.

While Bryan admits to being somewhat surprised by Jeffrey’s rather loose language posted in his comments, Jeffrey says quite candidly :”one does like to muddy the waters every now and then”.

Some things never change…