... I got to go hear Rob Bell speak. Good stuff. Then we came home to find Evan Lysacek starting his Olympic long program skate. So exciting. At 11:23, I heard a door open, and a comatosed Haley walked out mumbling something about being thirsty. We gave her some water. She saw the Olympics were on and started talking about hockey. (Earlier in the day, I had mentioned how I was bummed I wouldn ...

... and (verb) "to draw patterns and pictures because you are bored or thinking of other things". Truly inspired doodling requires you to be in quite specific states of mind: "Not-quite-comatosed" and "away-with-the-fairies" are conditions that produce some of the very best doodles. Every doodler specialises in different patterns and shapes. I favour squares, wavy lines ...

... initiative we are all living longer lives, eating less pies and being exposed to less germs and puffs of tobacco smoke. Meanwhile different coloured supermarkets are offering bewildered ex-pub goers the opportunity to get quietly comatosed at home in front Steven Fry or River City on the telly. About a tenner's worth of red wine does the trick and a few days later it's Monday and you can ...