There I was, sitting in the car zoom-zoom-zooming up the freeway, when I invented the funnest game ever... MrB, you see, has 8248 songs downloaded onto his iPod (not mine, I only get to hold the precious iPod occasionally (and my goodness wouldn't Kenneth Williams enjoy that sentence)) and only rarely uses the shuffle function. And because I have the attention span of a flea at the moment, I decided that I was definitely in a shuffley mood. And then I decided to test MrB's much vaunted musical knowledge.

I'll explain further - MrB is the world expert on Christian Music. Well he likes to think he is. And he does have an extensive knowledge of all things Christian Music, as well as a very large CD collection. All of which (not including miles of vinyl) is loaded onto the iPod. It's mainly hardcore, ska, alternative stuff. With a scarey amount of Larry Norman. You don't want to know about Larry Norman. He's the bane of my life... But I'll just make the comment that MrB is a child of the 80s and move right along. He used to work in the Industry - was the Music Manager of large chain of nameless Christian bookshops. When we lived in the UK he was the Sales & Marketing Manager for a Christian record label. He knows what he's talking about. And to reeeaaallly piss him off, just tell him that all Christian Music is crap, and he will then lecture you for an hour or so, and force you to listen to some pretty amazing stuff - until you admit that in fact, not all Christian Music is crap - and that there are lots of very talented artists working in the industry. There are. Seriously. You are however allowed to disparage Hillsong, Seam of Gold, and all other Praise & Worship stuff as much as you please...

Anyway - my game: I'd hit 'next' on the shuffle function and he had to name artist, song and album within 30 seconds or be scoffed at mercilessly. He did pretty damn well. I'd have been crap. The only ones that he struggled with were (my) secular albums - Cornershop, Dixie Chicks, Lyle Lovett. He owns hundreds of albums, and can identify pretty much all of them. He even knows which tracks are on which album. I was impressed! But I guess I have the same encyclopedic knowledge when it comes to my book collection - it's all about what's important to you - and MrB's love of music, his passion about Christian Music, has always been one of the things that intrigued and attracted me...

And then Ms LaRue burst my bubble by telling me that her iPod even has a game function that does exactly the same thing... Bummer. So. I didn't invent it, but it was still mucho fun! As was the Police & Justice Museum - see told you we were going museum-ing. Although I'm glad we didn't get up to any 'museum-ing' as there were just far too many people about...