Sedayne, you don't feel you might be over reacting just a little?

Not in the slightest - until we get some more hair bobbles & another hair brush these competitive domestic spats will be an inevitability of our ritual preening as we prepare to go out to our local singaround, leaving it until the last minute, as usual (procrastination being the one true noble quality we have in common). Still, chances are I'll be back to my old Phil Mitchell grade-one if we get a decent summer - no need for hair brush or bobbles then!

Anyway, here's Springwatch. They're at Pensthorpe this time round which we visited a couple of years ago, and will do again next week. Seems the weather's a tad inclement in Norfolk right now - here on The Fylde, however, it's sunny & glorious, with the ducks, geese & swans parading with their little ones on the banks of Fairhaven Lake. Heavenly so it is. I'll miss that when we move up to Fleetwood.