It was inevitable that Bethany would come down with the flu bug as well and it, or the drugs we're filling her with, are making her very sleepy until of course we try to put her to bed. She has her brighter moments and these are increasing as she is over the worst but she still looks to the comfort of cuddles.
   Yesterday was Nathan's first birthday and as usual she did enjoy herself running around Louise and Paul's but still had moments when toys were not enough to placate her. Putting her to bed when we got back home Bethany slept for about half an hour before waking and not settling back down and staying up until we went to bed and she slept with us.

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   Left unchecked the few radios at work tend to migrate to the kind of stations that must think Radio 2 is cutting edge and have inane interchangeable names that some focus group has been paid a lot of money to come up with and mean nothing like Smooth, Magic, Easy and Dull. This must be why apparently taxi drivers always have their radios tuned in to such stations to provide nothing more confrontational than background music. They tend to be national stations syndicated to former local stations so that you find former national DJs presenting programmes with local news and travel reports on the hour giving it a feel of Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse as Smashie and Nicey after being demoted to Quiet FM. This was amplified by trails heard on what I think is Smooth (like I say they are all pretty interchangeable and I wasn't particularly listening but I can't turn them all off) that Simon Bates was joining the station. Given that Pat Sharp was presenting at the time it seems another 80s revival is underway. For the duration of my coffee he managed the breathtaking feat of taking his own nonsense bit of fluff phone in seriously when commenting on some ridiculous survey that claimed Sandra Bullock came top of a poll of people we would most like as a neighbour. Asking his listeners for their favourites he dismissed one woman's suggestion of George Clooney as too fanciful and that she was out of luck as he had a new girlfriend. Considering that the whole item was fanciful this seemed churlish and at no point did the lady's response indicate that she was looking for a relationship and this had not been asked - perhaps she simply believed that he may be more willing to lend some milk or he would not start territorial disputes over fencing. Presumably those people who wanted to live next door to Sandra Bullock believe that she would be a valuable asset to the Neighbourhood Watch Scheme.