Molly packs on the pound(s)

Molly has put on almost 1lb in the last week and is well on her way to regaining her birthweight.

Helen is still suffering a worrying amount of pain in her right side and has been contemplating a trip to A&E if things do not improve this weekend.

The puppies are coming home today having had a few nights with our friends Neville & Claire (who own their mother) as their rather excitable and boisterous nature was becoming a problem for Helen because they could not resist trying to jump up at her whenever she came downstairs. We have been missing them terribly.

I had half a day of filming yesterday for a new BBC3 programme which was great fun although it did mean getting up at 6am after finishing a feed at 4.35am to travel to Southwark for an 8.30 start. I met some really nice people on the shoot and look forward to seeing some of them again on future projects. I have no proper acting lined up at the moment for obvious reasons, but am still thinking about auditioning for Caliban in the Tempest for Chiltern Shakespeare in the summer.

On the trail of a high iron diet for Helen, I cooked beef wellington for the first time last night, wrapping the aberdeen angus beef fillet in a mixture of black pudding and chicken and mushroom pate before adding the pastry. Though I say it myself it was v tasty. Charlotte made a delicious pudding involving industrial quantities of dark chocolate which is also high in iron. No risk of me losing any weight this month.