Navels
A lot of you entered the belly button competition that I launched a few weeks back. Thank you for your participation. Belly buttons or navels are customarily overlooked as if they were of little consequence but every belly button is a physical reminder of our pre-birth connections with our mothers. It is of course the site where the knot is tied after separation. Belly buttons can be beautiful or ugly. In some cultures - notably Turkey - belly dancing focuses all eyes upon the centre of the belly - the navel. From the hundreds of images received at Yorkshire Pudding HQ, the expert belly button judges have picked the following seven for adulation - in reverse order... 7. "Derek" - the squinting navel of John Gray, Wales... 6. "Paddy" - the happy navel of Dave Northsider, County Cork, Ireland... 5. "Tibby" - the tattooed navel of Bruce Taylor, Arizona, USA... 4. "Humpty" - the bulging belly button of a certain Canadian blogger who unde...