Nice pictures fellas.
I must say I don't really get this obsession with recession. After the banking bust there were widespread calls for the economy to be changed so it wasn't as reliant upon finance and property. That kind of shift isn't going to happen overnight, and would seem to require changes that would affect 'growth'.
If we become obsessed with achieving growth every month/quarter we get into the same short-term thinking that buggered the banks up. I know politicians rarely look beyond their term of office, but it would be a nice trait if for once some of them did wouldn't it?