Sign of the times ...

I rang my friend Speedy on the weekend. "What you up to?" I asked. "Just lying down, playing with these dangly things.", came the reply.

A moments silence at both ends of the line ... "no, hang on, that's not what I meant!". It transpires that he was lying on a playmat, playing with a mobile. Speedy, needless to say, has also just become a Dad - to Alfie, 12 days Olivia's junior.

Spe and I discussed this further, in a now rare and therefore beautiful Saturday afternoon in the pub, and decided that it's amazing what having a kid does to your perception and use of language. You become fluent in poo and spend ages discussing every giggle, gurgle, gurn and grimace ... and then go and write about it on the Internet.