Ah, right... well, I did just block her. I knew she wouldn't like it, but I figured, what can she do?
I got my answer when I got back from a long drive home from London at just before 4am. On my blog post, where I alluded to her recent intrusion into my life in these exact words:
"...I decided to use my middle name (less well known amongst my family) to avoid detection, but I think I ought to have used a completely fictitious name, now. There's somebody else that I forgot about, not in my family, that I decidedly do not want to have to deal with again! But in a Stacey from Wayne's World style gesture, they remembered themselves to me yesterday... ugh!"
Note how I mentioned no names, and was deliberately vague and humorously dismissive about it.
Now, I use StatCounter, and she hasn't visited my blog for several weeks (though she did continue to visit it VERY regularly for quite a while after she ended the friendship). So when I found that she'd commented in these exact words:
"Grow up (my name). If you can't take a joke then I feel sorry for you. I thought it was pretty funny, shame you decided to see it through 'chip on your shoulder' eyes. Anyone would think I had destroyed your life the way you slag me off here there and everywhere. One wonders if you have portrayed me as some kind of monster to all the home ed folk. If you have I think that is very unfair of you as all we had was a clash of personalities. I surely deserve a fair hearing as far as anyone else is concerned.
Still, some people are beyond reasoning with and as I decidedly do not want to have to deal with YOU again I shall leave you be with your fantasy about 'big bad Bex' and the poor mistreatment of (my name). Thank goodness I got told you'd responded to my message on here or I'd never have known, lol. Oh and there really was no need to block me on FB. I had no intention of ever contacting you again you know!"
I put two and two together and figured this was the probable sequence of events: found I'd blocked her, was furious, wanted a way to "get back" at me for it in a public way, looked for and found my blog (must've taken some doing - I moved its URL a couple of weeks ago), read the most recent post, was even more furious at it, so indulged in a deranged vent and quaintly absurd character assassination. Bear in mind that the "home ed folk" are people in a webgroup that I left months ago. Several of them became my close friends, whilst to her none of them were more than internet names or at very most, casual acquaintances (she'd met them once or twice, exchanged names and handshakes, tried to get them to visit her - unsuccessful long before I even knew they'd met her - they simply perceived her psycho aura for themselves and backed away!).