Birthing - a word I don't remember ever having used until recently, when I was writing a piece entitled "The day". It's also a word that I've hardly ever come across, so much so that I have no memory of when that was.

Until the morning after having published the article. I'm sitting on the throne, engrossed in the latest edition of Total Film while evacuating my bowels (evidence that a man can multi-task too!) I'm reading a feature discussing the utility or otherwise of movie commentaries that accompany DVD and Blu-Ray releases when, there it appears, in all its glory - "...films represent years of careful birthing..."

Am I to make something out of it? Is this pure coincidence or some evidence of predictive capabilities? Could it be a case of heightened awareness because, happy with my use of an under-utilised word, I am more inclined to notice it?