I've been threatened with legal action

It’s regarding this journal entry. Instead of getting in touch with me, either by e-mail or leaving a comment on the journal, Patrick Paul Porter, the builder who I named in the offending post, rang my parents, demanding it gets taken down and an apology issued.

How grown up, trying to get my parents to emotionally blackmail me into taking it down. I don’t have a problem publishing things that are true on my blog, and I don’t take threats of legal action lightly, however due to my parents’ concern, I have edited the offending entry.

Basically, this builder did the renovations on our house in France. There was some disagreement over the work (in particular, the way building rubble was left in the garden) – so we didn’t really leave on the best of terms.

My original post mixed fact with speculation (I apologise for not making a clear distinction between the two), but one thing that is fact is the graffiti he left in our cellar: “You Idiot English Wankers”. Lovely.

I’m sorry, but if past experience with customers has been posted on the Internet and you don’t like that, then that’s your problem.

I stand by my original post, and I can assure you, the answer “Paul Porter” to the question “Who would you recommend for a renovation in France?” won’t be coming from me.