Early weeks at the school gates. Standing around feeling a bit lost, anxious and unknowing. No, not the children but the mums facing the fear of the 'school run'. Forget Sex and the City, how about a series on the behavioural tactics of mums at the gates?

Communication can dry up during adolescence which is why people identify so much with Harry Enfield's Kevin and Perry characters and that's why the teenage stage has often been called the "grunt stage" but communication is a two-way process. It's what WE want and think, and what our teenagers want and think. Most of us are great at talking but less good at listening and understanding and we often only half listen to our kids.

What does summer smell like to you? A perfect English rose in full bloom? The sweet waft of honeysuckle or intoxicating scent of Jasmine blossom on a balmy evening? Freshly cut grass? The list goes on and is, of course, completely personal.

Children's television has been a treasured part of British TV for a long time - from quietly Watching With Mother, through the bright colours of the Broom Cupboard and into Dick and Dom‛s crazy Bungalow. But this has all come under threat in recent months, if not recent years, with a distinct lack of anything to take the edge off a Saturday morning or distract the kids in the after school slot.