If it weren't for the fact that, to my knowledge, the great Murray Walker is still very much alive, and for the fact that I don't believe in reincarnation, I would be tempted to believe that his spirit had infused my youngest Dragonet, who has taken to shouting, "Go! Go! Go!", whenever I'm about to set off with her in the pushchair.

Whew! After months of feeling like my brain wasn't working during both my pregnancies, it turns out that it was due to tiredness, and that the pregnancies and motherhood have actually made me more intelligent. Hooray!

Here's one of my all-time favourite lines:

When I said I should die a bachelor, I did not think I should live… till I were married.

I'm looking to dispose of a very small number of French and South American novels or plays that I am unlikely to reread. If anyone reads French or Spanish literature and would be interested in knowing which books are available, please leave a message in the comments.

Dragon Dada and I are getting rid of some videos and a couple of DVDs. If anyone is interested in any of the following, we'll be happy to sell them for £1 per video, plus postage where applicable.

Contact (ex-rental)
Entrapment (ex-rental)
Hamlet (widescreen - Branagh version)
A Few Good Men (widescreen)
Smokey and the Bandit
Groundhog Day
The Belles of St Trinian's
Home Alone
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan) (widescreen)
Star Trek III (The Search for Spok) (widescreen)
Star Trek IV (The Voyage Home) (widescreen)
Star Trek VI (The Undiscovered Country) (widescreen)
Star Trek VII (Generations) (widescreen)
Star Trek VIII (First Contact) (widescreen)

Dukes of Hazzard box-set (9 episodes, three each of Daisy Duke, Rosco P. Coltrane, The General Lee)
X-Files series 1-5 box-sets (box 5 is still cellophane wrapped)
Friends series 2 box-set (2 boxes)
Friends series 5 box-set (2 boxes)

If you want the box-sets, please just give us your best offer.

Star Trek IX Insurrection DVD
The Wind In The Willows DVD (Steve Coogan, Eric Idle, Terry Jones)

We're looking for £5 per DVD, but we're open to offers.

If you're interested, please let us know by Tuesday 17th evening, otherwise we'll be selling them on eBay.

If you would like one or more of these items, please send me an e-mail or leave a message in the comments section and I'll get back to you.

Dragon Dada and I are in the process of reorganising our video and DVD collection and, as a result, we are going to have a large number of blank videos that we want to get rid of. If anyone is interested, please let me know by leaving a message in the Comments section or e-mailing me, if you know my address.

I hear the plan is to revamp Rupert the Bear. There has been a lot of this lately, or maybe not so lately now that I think of it - take Disney's redrawing of Winnie the Pooh for example. I suppose that I am a purist, but I can't see why timeless drawings cannot appeal to new generations. I can see the need for sometimes changing or updating storylines - the removal of a golliwog character from Toytown (as I recall) was a good move, I believe. I can see that new techniques in animation can change the way the programme is produced. I cannot, however, understand why it is necessary to fundamentally change the drawing itself. Is there something about the original Rupert drawing that means it only appeals to a certain generation? I very much doubt it. My elder Dragonet certainly enjoys watching Rupert and the Frog Song. She also likes drawings of the Classic Winne the Pooh. I think it's a trifle insulting to the taste of today's children to suggest that they wouldn't appreciate the same drawings, and it's certainly an insult to the original illustrators to suggest that their drawings lose their appeal.

My own reaction, as a parent, when a character I loved as a child is rebranded, is to try not to expose my child to the rebranded version. I admit that I am not wholly consistent with this approach - I will let my Dragonet watch the CBeebies version of Bill and Ben which my mother loved as a child. However you can guarantee that the only Disney Winnie the Pooh items in our house have come from elsewhere (and generally don't stay in the household very long), and I suspect that my Dragonet will not be watching Rupert the Bear.

Birthday wishes go today to my beloved Dragon Dada, who, contrary to public opinion, is not 72 today.