25th May, 2009 - My Secret Diary

I have been watching too much children’s telly recently. I laughed when I saw on of my friend’s Facebook status: she pointed out that she realised that she had been watching C Beebies (the BBC channel for under-5s) for half an hour on her own before she realised that her child had been somewhere else all the time.

The only series I watch nowadays is In the Night Garden which is an odd psychedelic thing where soft toys wander around a garden which is a bit like heaven and a bit like the crazed imagination of a writer on an acid trip. I get quite grouchy if I miss an episode because I am working late. It is rather relaxing, and frankly the story-lines are considerably better than Frost.

I realised I was watching too much this morning, when I found myself watching the adverts and actually experiencing quite a strong urge to purchase Dora’s Secret Diary. Get this: it is a diary that opens when you (and only you) speak to it. How secret is that! You can also write in it with a UV pen, so that prying eyes will be oblivious to your innermost thoughts.

Utterly brilliant. After all, if you write a diary regularly, you don’t want everyone to read it. I mean who would be stupid enough to publish their daily thoughts, say, on the Internet! Crazy huh?