Everybody knows one

Already. Child 3 sorting proxy vote advice from abroad, and child 2 reports on finishing last essay in library. And it wasn’t even 7am. What a flat, interconnected world this is. My parents were lucky to get a weekly phone call from the pay phone at the end of the corridor, doubtless full of not much information at all. Now I’m getting videos, photos, selfies etc and probably more in touch than if they were in the same house.

So into the sunlit uplands of lovely Thursday we tread. Nige is promising-what I’m sure will be fabulous - pistachio and pink grapefruit cake! At last! Who knew pistachio and grapefruit could even tolerate each other let alone coexist in the same cake? Even I can’t mess up a cake photo surely?

And as Gareth Malone kicks off another choir show tonight with Gareth’s Invictus Choir on BBC One we’ll have SONGS WITH A CHOIR/SINGING TOGETHER IS A LOVELY THING/LET'S ALL SWAY AT THE THE SAME TIME oldies and that’ll do nicely.