Three highly significant pieces of news today.

In the interest of brevity (and excitement, dammit) I'll cut the crap and go straight to the chase, with the winners coming in reverse order of importance, as is the tradition (or old charter, or something):

3. Thomas is currently mid-production of a docudrama for Channel 4 and some cable history channel about a group of Victorian explorers who go off to the Arctic, get trapped there for five years, and end up dead. In order to shoot some of the big, wide landscape scenes, he's being taken to Norway for a week to act on a glacier. This much is not new information, at least not to me.

What is new, though, is that the location for the shoot is none other than that which was used for the battle on the ice planet Hoth at the beginning of The Empire Strikes Back. This alone ensures that while Northwest Passage may not be our kid's largest role, this must surely be the coolest production in which he's ever been involved.

2. My biscuit-hunting saga is almost at an end. In 17 days, it will be mine, along with a sizable mountain of debt. And I may even be able to say the F word. More of this to come. Trust me. :)

So you'd think something pretty amazing would have to have happened to knock that into second place. And you'd be right.

1. You may recall that about a year ago, I mentioned Jos who (for those not already familiar) two years ago at the age of 25, was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Although things were beginning to look better this time last year, there was still some worry about whether it would return.

But today I learned that Joseph's doctor told him he was 100%, straight up, absolutely, unquestionably, non-negotiably in the clear, and that he never wanted to see him again. Ever. Period. Or else. So there. Beat it, mister.

This is, without doubt, the best news I've heard all year.

So other than successfully wooing Anna Friel and finding the killer blow to Bush's presidency, I can't think how today could have been any more positive.

You just know tomorrow's going to be a come down. :)