I was surprised to find my blog had had hundreds of extra visitors over the last couple of days. The mystery deepened when I found they had all arrived at Ertblog via a Google search about The Guardian's Living with Teenagers column, which ended in June last year.

Tonight, I solved the mystery. The Guardian's G2 section revealed the name of the author: Julie Myerson after, it seems, days of speculation. Myerson has been the subject of a barrage of criticism for using her son's drug use as the subject of a book, The Lost Child. Critics described her actions as a betrayal of motherhood. Similar criticisms were made of her Teenagers column. The Guardian has now removed the columns from its website now the author's identity is public.

My Ertblog post about that column ranked fourth in a Google search on the subject – hence all those visitors!