Sofa time

Hot and steamy outside, cool indoors. We've stayed in for the weekend, as little Tom has a temperature and sore throat. He sounds like a frog. He's enjoyed playing with all his Lego kits but you can feel the heat coming off him, so I'll take him to the doctors tomorrow. No skool till Tuesday at least, I think.

We have played house: put up more pictures, organised the office, read the reams of paper that come with the New York Times & Washington Post. This week R is broadcasting on the White House / Petraeus report, and it's my last week without real work. Next week, I do the PBS bulletins from New York as the DC studio rebuild begins. The week after, it's rolling rehearsals. The week after that, we're on air for real, and the late nights begin...