Age concern

All is noisy in the big brother house, in fact the word 'noisy' does not do justice to the level of sound in my house at the moment. Nothing to report, sun still is not shining and the days are just slipping away until the children go back to school, shame. I tell you, modern technology just leaves me in wonder. I am the designated travel agent at the moment and I have just learnt that you can 'check in' online, my god.

Whilst trying desperately to slip back into a state of sleep after feeding the baby at some ungodly hour my thoughts turned to me getting old. I know that I am ONLY 32, but I desperately tried to work out what year it would be when I would be 80. I remember when I was at senior school and back in the day when it was just 1st, 2nd third year and not year 7, year 8 and so on, there was a lot of discussion about space stations. It must have been big business because we were all asked to decide what profession we would have aboard this huge space station. Apparently the government would be asking a select few to drop everything and live forever in space and I could think of a few people I wouldn't mind sending in to space. The best job at the time I could come up with was a hairdresser, what high expectations I had of myself back then, (absolutely no offence meant to hairdressers at all, and you certainly have your work cut out on my mop). It just goes to show that although technology does move very quickly we are still no nearer to creating a space station. The year will be 2057 (I think) and I wonder how much further advanced we will be then. Its funny just how much dreams and night time thinking does affect you. I think that because you are in a kind of state of unconsciousness you are much more susceptible and dreams do feel so real. Anyway me ageing is obviously firmly in my mind and it still is. I know that I am still 32 years young but there are still things that you can only do when you are younger and not suffering from hangovers is one of them. As well as eating house loads of food and it having absolutely no physical affect on you. Whilst I am reminiscing I would also be able to join the RAF, qualify as a firm possibility as the new Dr Who's sidekick and wear very short shorts because I would have the legs and the age to pull it off. Anyway I just have to think that Angelina Jolie is 32, looks fantastic and is doing all of her own stunts in her latest film and what is good enough for her is good enough for me. Where's Brad Pitt when you need him.

Today's medical fact; Before their first birthday, average babies will have dribbled 255 pints of saliva. By the time they're two years old, they will have crawled 93 miles.