While I do attract attention to myself on occasions, sometimes even deliberately, I really don't like being the centre of attention on my birthday. It has nothing to do with growing older - I've felt this way since my teens - but more to do with the fact that I am rather self-conscious. Good observers of human behaviour will doubtless pick this up with little trouble if they spend some time with me. The ordinary Joe and Sharlene will shriek in disbelief.

Yesterday I had a shift for the Newcastle Herald at 2RPH which went very smoothly and was a lot of fun to read and announce. I only mentioned my nativity to one person at the studio and then in a perfectly natural context, but I did take the following shot of the computer monitor, set up for the program (left hand column) with a tell-tale top of the hour as a centrepiece. Just this sole obscure tribute to the day.