Midwives make the best toast and Vegemite in the world.

Spoke too soon, and made an even bigger parking lot. Retiring quietly now to do some work!

And again without the parking lot!

Congratulations on breaking the cat barrier.

The thing I found most revealing and nasty about the Stead story was that it held very closely to the actual course of Nigel's illness (the radiation, the chemotherapy, the spread to the liver, the public disclosure). The rapid compliance and disloyalty of the widow was an appalling piece of fantasy, and truly yucky. It is completely disingenuous of Stead to insist that only unsophisticated readers would make the connection to real people. It seemed to me like a really lazy piece of writing.