Mr Bea has to take or forfeit some holidays by June this year. So, of course, he'll take them, and he asked me when they should be and what we should do. And I don't know. It depends what's going on with my cycle. When does one get one's period back after a D&C? How long is a piece of string?

After much anguishing over the uncertainty of infertility I realised it didn't matter. Book the holiday whenever. If my period's here, we'll go to Sydney to see their specialists in miscarriage*. If not, the world's our oyster, if a slightly gritty one which has been left out in the sun too long therefore destroying its taste and edibility, and which by the way doesn't seem to contain a pearl, the bastard thing.

So it was that I came to be browsing Intrepid's website, and planting a tree in Africa. I encourage you to do the same. Intrepid is a small group travel company which I highly recommend, and I'm not even getting paid to. They offer great value-for-money holidays, and in saying so I compare them first-hand with several different tour companies and independent travel. I love the respect they have for the cultures of their travel destinations, and their commitment to leaving the place even better than they found it. By, for example, planting trees. In Africa. Best of all, in case you're still wavering, I have successfully unsubscibed from their newsletter in the past, not that you have to subscribe now in order to plant a tree in Africa, but what I'm saying is they're quite trustworthy.

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Mel made an interesting suggestion last week. She suggests everyone write a complimentary letter to a store or company about an employee. I know from time to time I get comments saying, "I should totally, like, start doing good deeds and shit, hey?" so it seems to me now's your chance. First, the tree. Then - and an email or phone call is acceptable if you don't want to undo your first piece of good work - tell someone's boss how much they rock. And then tell us about it. And email me, so I can link to you next week. And we can all, like, spread the love and stuff. Because we all have so much going unclaimed. We can even call it "The Great Deed Challenge" and we can hold one every... twenty-four... deeds. Who's with me?

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*On which, more later.