Slow News Day

[liadnan]

The Today presenters seemed to have difficulty avoiding cracking up when covering this story this morning. Particularly given the introduction by a sample of regional "moos".

As I write Basil the Cat is looking sceptically at me from across the room, where he has taken up residence on my wig and gown. I only let him in out of the kindness of my heart, given it was pissing with rain. I forgot this was the same Basil who occasionally disappears for weeks on end and, once all hope seems lost, turns up having a luxurious break in some City office and saunters back into the Green.