Reasons to be cheerful...

Since Cherry is in a particularly fragile state at the moment, and posting about all the possible disasters looming over us, I feel the need to balance out the blogs with some of the lighter highlights of the news.

• Beer drinking duck understands Chinese: A man in China says his duck, Yaya, who enjoys sea food and beer, can understand his instructions. "He understands every instruction I give him, such as to tumble or to fly. But when he's tired he turns his back on me."
• Man names daughter after car: A farther in Romania who is an avid car enthusiast, has named his daughter SLK, after the famous Mercedes model. "If I had had a boy, I would have named him BMW because this car's hot and runs very fast." Nice to see he's put some thought into this then.
• Brits keen on nude gym sessions: British nudists are bombarding a Dutch gym owner with calls for more information after he announced plans for a nude fitness course. Just tell me where to sign up.

And if that wasn't enough...

• It's only 16 days to St Patricks Day!
• Daylight savings time starts next Sunday (in the US*), which means getting up earlier, but getting to travel home from work in daylight!
• A not-to-distant season finale for Heroes, which promises to be awesome!

* Providing my sources are correct, which they may not be. I'm sure enough people will shout if I'm wrong.