"I had hoped to be invited to the 'party to end all parties' at the Millennium Dome, heavily disguised as the sort of 'ordinary person' Mr Blair says he wishes to meet. But it now looks as though it is all off. A pair of Black Redstarts has settled down to build a nest on the construction site. Possibly they realised, in their instinctive, bird-brained way, that there was no likelihood of being disturbed."