I enjoyed the God interview . . but one small question . . Is it the case that children "get bored of being children", rather than that society projects an expectation that this should be so, and that they should rush onwards to adult "sophistication"??

It has been a great blessing to us that our daughter and the group of friends of which she is apart have, to an extent, stood aside from the social expectations and have not felt that need to shed childhood. (She's 18 now, clearly not a child, but I certainly couldn't say when she passed from child to adult). IMO we're far too ready to blame children for failings we set up for them; it's nice to see God falling into the same trap.

And to get onto topic - as a musical bridge from God's interview back to the Mudcat I'd like to nominate Si Kahn's "What you do with what you've got" - preferably sung by Roy Bailey with a chorus of assembled mudcatters!

G.