If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

Things Happen and once they start happening you pretty much just to hold on for dear life and see where they drop you when they stop.

I noticed that once you realize someone's watching you it's pretty hard not to find yourself watching them back.

I guess there was a war going on somewhere in the world that night but it wasn't one that could touch us.

I frightened myself. I became the ghost Piper was so scared of.

but all I could think was in New York that kid would have been stuck in a straitjacket practically from birth and dangled over a tank full of Educational Consultants and Remedial Experts all snapping at his ankles for the next twenty years arguing about his Special Needs and getting paid plenty for it.

My daughter is a fantastic travelling companion - she's totally organised, whereas I'm hopeless.