The sun's been out this week, so the new paddling pool has come out for the first time - we got it in the sales last Autumn - and it's a tad bigger than I'd been expecting. 10' x 30" doesn't sound that big, especially to one who thinks in metric (it's about 3m x 0.75m), but there's 3500 litres of water in there, 3.5 tons!

It took somewhere around 6 hours to fill, so I was dreading what it'd cost me on the water bill, but according to Southern Water 3.5 cubic metres of water will have only cost me £2.38 bargain!

It was only flour, but the purple haze hanging in the houses of Parliament diverted the media's attention away from Mistaken Identity and the Governments' ID card fiasco and onto Bliar and co.

Maybe that's cynical, but this event took news coverage away from other more important happenings, I wonder what other bad news the Government sneaked out on Wednesday?