On a lighter note...

Brendan just kindly removed all the spyware from my computer and installed MS antispyware- great. Saw some bits of Jerry Springer the Opera - it was quite funny, but I wasnt really following it. Ally was in fits of giggles till about 11, due to unexpected nap and late tea, but the others were in bed at reasonable time, considering (see below). He is such a funny little chappy, laughing boy, I call him. I can't remember any of the others finding life so hilarous at 15 months.

Jem resumed ballet today and Fugs had his hair cut, but not at the place where they gave him a "mushroom head", like a cross between something out of the Beano and Christopher Robin. No, it was the notorious John the barber, who you have to get on a good day, if you want a straight line, but he obviously has a healthy fear of a woman's wrath, and never cuts too much off his hair. (The breakdown man thought he was a girl; luckily he was asleep then).

Never mind Big Cat Week on the BBC; see our nature reserve: pretzels on bird table, mole hills; o, and pheasant. lol.