This week has been Baby of the Year week which always bring with it attendant tantrums, recriminations and tears... and that's just from me.

Without fail we always manage to get something wrong. This year we succeeded in publishing three separate babies' pictures twice in our supplement, only both times with different details.

The photographic company that took the pictures and supplied all the details messed up but the fact the errors made it into print was completely and utterly my fault.

The only excuse I can offer in my defence is that after staring at more than 300 babies' pictures last Thursday and Friday, the little darlings all started to look the same after a while.

I've never known a supplement pass by without some controversy. A few years ago, when I was editing the Wiltshire Times, one mum complained that the only reason her child had not won was because she was black. Can you beleive that?

The supplement is always an interesting snapshot of what people are calling their babies these days. There were a few Theos and Alanas, as well as a fair number of Daniels and Shannons.

The standout name for me though was one child named Brandon-Lee, as in the late son of the equally late Bruce Lee, who died when he accidentally shot himself during the making of martial arts horror flick The Crow.

A charming tale to share with the grandchildren I'm sure.

The other big event this week was the Gazette receiving a late payment notice and the threat of court action, from ourselves.

Somehow a house advert for something or other generated a cost to the business. When that cost failed to materialise our accounts computer, which is apparently slightly less friendly than Hal in 2001, decided we must be punished and sent its own employers a stern letter.

I'm tempted to leave things to see if we get taken to court by ourselves.

We may even send the bailiffs in to seize our own goods. How ironic would it be if what they seized was the accounts computer?