Watch

Here's a question - is a watch merely jewellery today? Fewer and fewer people seem to wear one, most of us use our mobile phones to tell the time, and for a fair amount of our day in any case, we are in some way connected to a computer. So when people do choose to wear them, is it just for decoration?

The new show that Canadian Karen mentioned in yesterday's comments, 'Dirty, Sexy Money' is like nails on a blackboard - for those of us old enough to just about remember the blackboard that is.

There are some superb actors in it, the deliciously evil Donald Sutherland, the divine Jill Clayburgh, the brilliant Peter Krause and one of the lesser Baldwins. And it is well-scripted. But a programme about the pathetic squabblings of a bunch of rich people is just annoying. You want to watch it and yet, you don't. Scratch, screech.

We had a volunteer come in to see us today. She had been working during the summer for a Christian Environmental group. Alex and I discussed with her the inherent responsibility that all of us feel is part of any form of Christian worship, 'wise stewards of our own inheritance'.
And yet how far is the Christianity of George W Bush et alia from this? They will claim, no, proclaim loudly that they are Christians and that everything they do is inspired by God and yet they do nothing to honour that part of our duty to do everything we can to not destroy that inheritance.

And now we will watch Ugly Betty. I'm sure it will, as ever, be superb, but watch this space.