This is an excellent post, and yet again gives us an insight into the drama and humanity that your job exposes you to (recent "apology to the dead" letter was another cracker). I'm commenting to ask you to consider if the focus of this blog isn't wandering? I know it's *your* blog, and the purpose of the blog is therefore whatever *you* choose, but I think the quality has been suffering recently. We're getingt more and more posts telling us about your "media pesonality" type activities (and aspirations?). It's dull. And unattractive. There's a million and one people throwing that kind of thing at us daily, on tv screens, newspaper pages and radio air waves - we don't need it, it decreases us all. Please don't fall into that trap. The gold here is that you allow us to join you in your work, with all it's rewarding, frustrating, saddening, joyful, bewildering and infuriating elements. The more you move away from that, the more irrelevant the blog becomes, and the more it risks moving towards mediocrity.