I used to breed large whites. They’re too large. Next time I’ll go for Tamworths. Meg tells me there won’t be a next time.

For a clinical psychologist she is remarkably insensitive. Perhaps (as for doctors) it isn’t a requirement for the job.

My friend Bryan is quite right in his assessment of me. If I were to stop work I would be decayed and decrepit in no time.

The Senior Tutor has resigned for personal reasons. Gosh. That’s quite something. One doesn’t give up a post of that calibre very easily.

We haven’t heard from him recently which, as Robin points out, means that they’re not doing very well. If they had been doing well we would have been the first people he would have wanted to tell.

“I can’t wait to get out of his strange place (the Recovery Centre).”

She’ll be in another strange place tomorrow (the Halfway House).

Hopefully one day she will realise that the strangeness goes wherever she goes.

Of course I said something nice about him. There’s always something nice one can say about anybody and I believe it is a good principle to be kind, irrespective of the behaviour of others. This isn’t a matter of turning the other cheek; I am perfectly capable of defending myself when attacked. But I try not to initiate unpleasantness.

How can the police protect us from terrorism if they are not to take any risks with our health and safety? Who would want to be a policeman – or any other professional apart from a health and safety inspector – with that crippling restriction?

I have a dilemma. I don’t like the concept of government inspectors but they have given us an absolutely superb report. I decided to stay true to my principles and say that I do not rate their judgement. Even so, out of natural born wickedness, I shall look up the reports on other treatment centres.

Things are not going well for the Prime Minister. I shan’t weep for him. As Chancellor of the Exchequer, he caused desperate damage to the national economy. Every one of his pet schemes went disastrously wrong – none more so than throwing billions into the bottomless pit of the NHS. Of course I know that this is exactly what people wanted him to do – but the job of responsible politicians is to do what works, rather than what the populace demands, through its distorted vision of self-interest, and he did the opposite.