Best job in the world?

You will probably have read or heard a few weeks ago about the British man who won the so-called "best job in the world" as caretaker of a tropical island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Ben Southall will earn £70,000 for spending six months swimming, snorkeling and sailing around Hamilton Island and blogging about his experiences.

However, I think he has some competition. For last week I stumbled across a man in Bundoran, Co Donegal could claim to have the best job in Ireland and possibly, yes, the world.

He's a Guinness Quality Control Bloke (or some similar title) and he apparently does exactly what it says on his van (pictured by me above).

As is well known, we Ulster/Irish folk take our Guinness seriously and no-one takes it more seriously than the Dublin-based brewer itself. And if your standards wane as a publican, your supply dries up - and quite right too in my book. Thankfully our little group did not report a single bad pint over the course of the week and, believe me, there were a lot of pints sunk.

A final thought: if the man in the van is actually the Guinness Quality Control Bloke's chauffeur rather than the Guinness Quality Control Bloke himself (if you know what I'm saying), then the Guinness Quality Control Bloke really must have the best job in the world.

Moving on, tomorrow is a big day in the White house.

The party's over for Vanessa as she trundles back to work (ho ho) for the first time in a year.

And, after a couple of short trial visits, Jamie has his first proper day at nursery - I was proud to present him with his school bag earlier this evening.

News on both tomorrow.