Mrs M writes: much excitement, it's Neil's birthday. He claims to be 35 again but we're not sure we believe him. There was the usual tuneless rendering of Happy Birthday and then cutting of the cakes. Note plural. Also duly noted were the standard of the cakes. Very very smart which is only fitting obviously for a man of our Neil's stature. I'm talking professionally here of course. Anyway here is a very bad picture of the man himself cutting the posh cakes.