I have a standard list...

        <ul>
            <li><a href="#">blah 1</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">blah 2</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">blah 3</a></li>
            <li><a href="#">blah 4</a></li>
        </ul>

And my jQuery:

$('ul li a').live('click', function() {
    var parent = $(this).parent('li');
});

What I want to find out is the parent li's position in the list of the clicked link e.g. clicking on blah 3 would give me 2, blah 4 would give 3 etc.

Any ideas?