Firstly, congratulations to Mum for her Blogisattva Awards nomination. Go Mum! (I have asked - apparently, nobbling the opposition isn't very Buddhist, so that's out. Shame. And they won't let me vote 'cos I'm a godless, non-spiritual, positivist, Dawkins-loving atheist.)

And secondly, Welcome, Dougal, to the blogsphere. Now stop shouting. Dougal is my aunt's husband. Err, that makes him my uncle, doesn't it? Weird.