When the world and all its awfulness - Paris, most pertinently - makes everything look stygian to the horizon, any little piece of good news is all the more welcome. And such there was this afternoon, as K rang me to let me know that, after a 'trial' shift today, she's netted herself a part-time job in a photographic shop. It's for two days a week, any permutation, according to what the shop needs, of Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and it will bring in a little over £400 a month for her, not at all bad for someone who's still at school, for a job that very much fits in with her interests, even her education, given that photography is one of her A-levels. Well played, that girl!