Balance - and a game of tags

One of my chief reasons for scaling down the 24/7 demands of my Post job - which I loved - was the stronger desire to help more with my single parent daughter's two kids. You must have noticed how often they turn up in stuff I write.

I'm sure I am getting the balance right these days. How about you? Is your company sympathetic?

Right, that's one thing I needed to mention. Another is my continuing disappointment with Dr Who. Once again Paul Groves has blogged on this - and I back his judgment: Donna is the problem.

In The Archers tonight (that's Monday) we discover the fate of the Ambridge rapist (yawn), tomorrow the tedium of Phil's telescope will be relieved (yawn) and a whole succession of other boring storylines are slowly teetering to fruition - the return of premature Abby, Alice's RAF application, Kathy's golf club job, the anerobic digester cliffhanger, the outbreak of staggers and what happens on Fallon's tour. I bet she hooks up with some other muso and dumps Ed.

Why am I still listening? Are you? Why?

Next topic: the Baftas. Justice prevailed over Cranford - it didn't deserve to win everything, but Eileen Atkins certainly did. Harry Hill had my vote, Gavin and Stacey (above) didn't, but I can quite see why it won. Bruce Forsyth is one of those things like Beachy Head and credit cards - inescapable realities of life about which it is pointless to argue. Andrew Marr's award was well deserved, ditto Heroes.

Nothing much else interested me, except for Paul (The Family) Watson getting tetchy over the reality genre which he kickstarted. I didn't watch the awards on the box, of course. I have a problem with presenter Graham Norton and instead helped my work-life balance a bit by watching Michael Clayton on DVD - better than I'd been led to believe with Brits Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton outstanding.

Am I alone in being unable to watch Norton, Jools Holland, Jonathan Ross, Vernon Kay and so many more key modern presenters?

And am I alone in being slightly cynical over the 'brave' revelations by John Prescott. Funny how the news of his food disorder comes out just before the publication of his autobiography.

And finally, watch my taglines in future.

John Kelly (voxford.blogspot.com) has discovered that hits on his site are greatly increased by people Googling for certain key words which incidentally crop up in taglines. When he went on holiday to Prague he mentioned Wenceslas Square. Someone came to his blog by searching for "hooker sex apartments near Wenceslas Square.

So don't be surprised what you see in the small blue type down there today - I'm after hits ...