Ok so Adele, Scouting For Girls and Nickelback occupy the top 3 chart albums, Jay-Z and Neil Diamond are headlining Glastonbury, Beadle and Ledger have both copped it, EVERYONE is ill, the vampire weekend album is just 'alright'/'terrible' (delete as appropriate), seasonal affective disorder reigns supreme and 'the mother of all recessions' is on the way.

Forget about all that, look at this -

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7101506.stm

I know it was last November but it is proof, if proof be need be, that life is good friends.