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Another episode of the UP series today; Michael Apted's every seven years documentary of a group of British school kids.

We have the kids up to age 28 now. Several have dropped out but most have stayed. It is fascinating.

The key to happiness seems to be doing what you want to do rather than what might have been programmed.

It is not all beer and skittles. One kid has become as near a homeless man as one could be. On the other hand, a girl who, up to now, seemed depressed and out of the loop has come up with a family and seems quite transformed.

And so on. Next will be 35 and then 41 and, I presume, as they have made the boxed set already, we will be done.

I just realized that we have seen Apted at the PS Film Festival. A couple of years ago, he did a great film called Enigma which was about the development of the enigma code breaking machine. He talked about making the film which didn't do very well here. It was very complicated. We liked it.