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Birmingham Stage Company has had huge success with their shows based on the books of Terry Deary. The Horrible Histories series has been touring widely for four years and the company is now in the wars with two new productions covering both great dust-ups of the 20th century.

Frightful First World War and Woeful Second World War finished a week at Coventry's Belgrade on Saturday, when we caught them back to back. Among many other places, the shows will be at Peterborough, Nottingham and Leicester, but perhaps the best venue for families in the region who want to catch them (and you all should) will be Birmingham's Alex in June and Hereford's Courtyard the week after.

Here's some words from Lucy Hewitt, aged seven, pictured right:

'I love being in Cat & Mouse. It is a story about what happened to the children and their parents during the Second World War in Poland.

'It is an emotional and tragic story about the Jewish people in the concentration camps. But we are acting this as the Jews being mice and the Germans being cats. I think this is good as I think children like me understand this better.

'When people come to see Cat & Mouse they will learn that Hitler and the Nazis were not very nice. They did bad things to the Jewish people, and lots of people died and children died as well, or were left with no mummies and daddies, and if I didn't have a mummy and daddy who would look after me? That makes me sad.

Lunchtime drinking is a sadly lost art. Even in journalism, formerly the last resort of a feckless ne'er-do-well looking to combine full-time employment with a raging drink habit.

No more the 'swift half' turning into a pint, then two pints, and so on in a self-propagating Fibonacci sequence of drinks leaving you at best hung over, or at worst asleep, at your desk come 4pm.

We're all professionals now - or at least we have to pretend to be. So it was a treat to be out on a training course earlier this week when suddenly a window off opportunity presented itself. A reasonable lunch break, the sun was shining, the hint of summer was in the air. Where to go? Why a darkened pub and a pint of warm beer please!