Do not meddle in the affairs of cats

Frank got shut in Jamie's bedroom last night and by the time he escaped he had widdled on Jamie's bed, soaking through a sleeping bag, blanket, sheets and into the mattress. Lovely. Just the thing you want to find at half past ten at night, long after the kids were actually supposed to have been in bed.

We got it cleaned up, put the sheets in the washer and banished Jamie to the sofa bed in the computer room whilst the mattress was propped against the radiator to dry off. I've scrubbed it again today and sprayed it with one of those super dooper odour neutralising sprays, and I think most of the smell has gone now, reducing it to the background odour of ten year old boy that was there before.

After the cleaning session, I started watching a documentary about the BBC radiophonic workshop which was utterly fascinating. Most of the futuristic sounding bleeps and twiddles to be heard in the background of Doctor Who, Bleep and Booster and just about every theme tune for schools programmes turned out to have been produced by recording the sound of tin pan lids and broken pianos and then playing them as tape loops at different speeds. The highest tech they had was the odd oscillator and electrical box of tricks, and when the new fangled moog synthesisers appeared most of the old guard left, complaining that they didn't sound the same. It was especially pleasing to see film of the shamefully unheralded Delia Derbyshire, who was the genius behind the arrangement of the seminal Doctor Who theme tune. Sadly she died a few years ago, in obscurity.

Work today has been the same old, same old of support calls, urgent requests for mail merges and the rest. I rang the Dudley office back to report on the status of one call at around a quarter to five but there was no answer - I assume they must have been snowed under. Ho ho - I am satirical.

The snow is now falling again, so I've just been out for a quick snowball fight with Jan and Jamie whilst Barney ran around in excitement. A quick shot of tequilla to warm me up again and now it's time for Friday night pizza - hurrah!