Just a quick note - after being a bit miserable on Friday night, Jess perked up a lot on Saturday morning. So much so that she decided to have her first barbecue on Sunday. We had a few friends over, and had a fairly chilled day. I think that people were perhaps easing off the beer as it was so hot and also as it was the day after England's first match of World Cup 2006 (which, incidentally, was a very good time to go shopping in Tesco...)

This week has been very busy at work, preparing a presentation for IBM staffers across Europe to look at from Monday morning. It's been my first foray into using the latest version of Flash (8 Professional), and it's not been without trouble - they've introduced some 'helpful' functions which would be great time-savers, if only you could work out how to turn them off...