"...There is no way to improve the form and function of the egg..." So true. Not my words by the way, they're those of the celebrated Cookery writer, Marcella Hazan.

Why so true ? Because some things just cannot be improved even with both shoulders to wheel and everyone pushing. The weekly report I crank out is a perfect example; I can't improve it, there's nothing to polish...because...because... there's nothing there.

It's a windy hollow. Tumbleweed blowing through the pages, yesterday's papers scudding along barren lines.

Improve upon a void...how ?

The only thing I could think of writing this afternoon was that I was probably at my happiest when I was five or six...but that ain't going to cut it.