In brief …

HAPPY BIRTHDAY rabidsamfan, you're just exactly the sort of person who I hope has a long and happy life so that you can continue to make the world a better place! And I also hope for cake. There should always be cake!

If you are working in a job that manages four magazines that all have their deadline in the one week and the new person is starting in that week, do not spend your three handover days respectively going home at lunch because you feel unwell, getting drunk at your goodbye lunch, and hungover. And do consider at least warning the new person that you've done no useful work for two weeks. SO stabbity stabbity! Still, deadlines met. Dark circles under eyes epic.

You can ride a bicycle with a broken thumb! Unless your roads or paths are very smooth, you shouldn't.

Kurt Fearnley won the lad's wheelie part of the London Marathon! Yay! STUPID organisation whoever let the women runners go out before the chairs, thank goodness there were no serious injuries in that crash.

I am sure there was much more, but five hours a night is nothing like enough sleep …