There's less excitement in the Lords (from 2.30pm) where the subjects to be raised at question time include restrictions on new and young drivers and (ho hum) progress made in the government's response to the Leveson report.

BBC: Week ahead

Perhaps he is hoping for a hoe-down on the Texas-Arkansas state line, with Mr Friedman and Ho-Hum trying to persuade other indies to run next time.

ECONOMIST: The Arkansas governor's race

We were sitting in the garden listening to the intoxicated hum of late-autumnal wasps, talking quietly and for a long time of Lajos and the children, as well as of Vilma, my dead sister.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Esther's Inheritance'

It is difficult to capture the mainly nocturnal sound on tape, since it doesn't hum all the time.

WSJ: Canadians Make a Racket Over Mysterious 'Windsor Hum'