Children's TV

Radio 4 had a little bit this morning on Woman's Hour about CBeebies TV programming and the fact that it's all male leads with female sidekicks. Ha! I knew I was right! Whenever I talk to the people I know here about it they say "But Millie is always right in the end," or "But Mrs Gogglins always solves everythign really" or whatever - "But the female sidekick gets her goals in the end by slightly manipulative means, showing up the (somehow undiminished) male hero. then she makes tea."

It's just nice to know I wasn't insane and that it really is all male leads.

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I'm so hot I might be dead. Thank heavens the bump has dropped; I was all but unable to eat a week ago.

Tomorrow I hope to go to antenatal swimming - Aquanatal it's called. There's a creche where I can leave Linnea; I hope she likes it there. If not they can just haul me out of the class. I must remember to wear my glasses into the pool so I can see people. They may well need to come and get me, as Linnea has never been left with strangers before. I'll make a point of arriving nice and early to settle her in. And I'll bring her something to eat and drink. Juice and banana muffins, probably. Something treatlike anyway.

Linnea's playhouse is playable in now; it has three walls and a roof. We'll sort out the fourth wall, the one with a door and so on, soon enough. And it needs more bracing in the frame, of course. But it will stop another day like today being quite so nerveracking - she insisted on playing outside, which meant I spent the whole time worried about sunburn. I was in the shade, watching her in the blazing sun. The playhouse is in the shady part of the garden though so we've moved the other stuff there too. Now we can both be in the shade.

We'll still overheat, but at least we won't burn.