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So I get woken up by my bladder. I have to get out of my nice warm cosy nest and go to the bathroom (other end of the flat). I do so, only to discover that my bladder was fine, it was just baby pressure!

Of course, I couldn't fall back asleep after that. I ended up eating over half a pint of strawberry Haagen-Dazs. Oops. (Although I haven't eaten properly the past couple of days, so really, it wasn't that bad.)

Oh, I have a lovely husband! I was feeling really tired this evening, so he got the dinner ready. :) (Well, mostly, I had to mash the potatoes and fry the schnitzel.) I felt bad because he was at work all day and I wasn't.

It took me 80 minutes to get home from Leicester Square. No High Barnet trains on the board, random stops on the Mill Hill East train I did get, then 12 minutes wait at Finchley Central. With a lying board. (It said "High Barnet 4 mins" for about 10 minutes.)

Excellent program on BBC Two about elephants, though. There was just a fantastic shot of a mother elephant picking up her tiny baby calf with her trunk. The poor baby died that night, though :-( Now they're doing the desert elephants of Libya, which makes me think of Carthage and Hannibal driving his elephants over the Alps. (Although these aren't the same elephants--IIRC war elephants are all Asian, and these are definitely African elephants.) Oh no, now they're showing a starving elephant calf, this is horrible when your maternal instincts are in full gear... (the calf died. *sniffle*)

(oooh, newborn elephant! tiny!)

(Sorry, elephants are my favourite animal!)

Anyway, Neil's out at bridge, so it's a quiet evening for me, shall do a bit of housework and wash my hair. Isn't it exciting?!

Tonight Kirsty Wark is interviewing Madonna. FFS, Newsnight is supposed to be serious. Is there ANY journalism untainted by celebrity culture?

(I suppose that the issue of international adoption does raise serious questions, but putting Madonna on smacks of "interview coup" rather than a hard hitting investigation.)

Or maybe I should just be thankful for small miracles and be glad that at least they're not wasting Jeremy Paxman on this tripe...