that's a very strange comparison to make. children versus musical instruments : well, they're both noisy.

i'll have some more champagne.

I don't mind so much when the wood taste lingers, it's when the strange gummy resiny taste lingers that I wish I'd stuck to stringed instruments...

What if 10 children play digeridoos and/or bouzoukis on a recently mown, wet lawn?

The best (possibly only) didgeridoo music I've heard was on Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, accompanying an Abba track.

And who is this Anne Atkins who's got you riled? Didn't she invent some sort of diet?

Hello all. Had my head in a hard disk for a few days there.

Bogue: that is a truly horrible idea.

Peter: she is a mouthy, bumptious religious type. A "broadcaster and novelist" - I think you know the sort. Her books I don't read and I haven't tried her diet either. She does TFTD fairly regularly, which I no longer catch, what with the domestic routine as it currently stands, but I happened to get that one. Very bizarre reasoning that morning stuffed with religious righteousness and delivered in a bossy tone. All because a pantomime metal band won Eurovision. I think there are probably better ways to make religious issues seem relevant.

I heard an interview with her once and her obvious ambition outstripped even her personal sense of savedness. She has said a lot of stuff about gays over recent times. None of it very understanding.

>3. If you play a didgeridoo in the bathroom it sounds louder than it does in the dining room. But either room empties fairly quickly.

11. If you do not have a didgeridoo and yet it sounds like you are playing a didgeridoo in the bathroom, the room stays empty afterwards for a surprisingly long time.

Bouzoukis and didgeridoos rock!