I used to find that I always had to have music on to study. There is a bit at the back of my mind that seems to wander if it's not occupied in that way. I quite often do the samething with the television - listening while I'm reading a book or the teletext. This drives Tim round the bend , in the same way that it drives me round the bend when he constantly channel hops ( and we've only got 4). Is this a gender thing ?

The car always has music in it and major negotations are undertaken among family members when a long trip is coming up. We tend to make strange complilation tapes and these combinations of music stay with you long after the tape has been consigned to under the passenger seat. We pride ourselves that our daughter's wide musical knowledge is due to these tapes. How many 15 year olds know two Versions of Delila ( that isn't how that is spelt is it): The Tom Jones version and The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Version.

Julie