Important to carry out one's chores (what's yours?) in a timely fashion, don't you agree? Not wanting to get quite so behind again, it is, once again, time for another end-of-month Dolmio (Doings Of Last Month Innoparticular Order).

That is to say, an attempt to capture past(a) events before they slip... my... mind. September 2006 was spent:

• getting to the end of Safe and wondering what that was all about
• rapidly turning the pages of Nick Hornby's A Long Way Down: top read
• munching through the mighty tasty Dorset Cereal
• being slightly unnerved by the situations in Spooks: nothing like real life, I'm sure
• humming along to Mr Blue Sky thanks to Dr Who and the Magic Roundabout film
• laughing more and cringing less at Extras, esp. Bowie's impromptu song
• savouring the choccy biscuit goodness of the Pick Up, from your local Tesco
• enjoying the characters and dirt in GP Taylor's Wormwood
• noodling along to Hot Chip performing Over And Over on the Mercury awards: I'll give you laid back
• reading endless Biff & Chip books with The Boy
• lapping up the story of Stiff records on BBC4

And that was September 2006.