If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I always forget, between each one, how irritating I find London Mardi Gras. The less commercial, smaller Brighton Pride is always much better. Admittedly, though, this Mardi Gras was better than what I did last year, which was spent […]

I never sleep well on Thursdays - too much adrenaline, I think. I must have passed out as soon as I lay down last night, though, and it was today before I knew anything about. Too late into today to be on time for work, unfortunately, but today nonetheless.
I had been intending to go to […]

Poor old Gordon. He got back from his eclipse-watching trip to Africa yesterday feeling horrid, so I ended up doing the show alone again this evening. I was feeling knackered because I woke up so early, aware that I HAD to hear the alarm so I’d be awake to trail the show on the breakfast […]

I woke up early, full of energy and good intentions and promised myself I’d get to the office well before anyone else so I could work on the new outline for the book. I’d finished in the gym by 7.30 and all was looking well. Tea and teacake bought, I sat at my desk and… […]

Much excitement: Johnny ‘Think of a Number’ Ball has agreed to come on this week’s show. His PRs are ringing back tomorrow with his details. Actually, I mustn’t say ‘Think of a Number’. I bet he gets that all the time.
I grew up watching Johnny Ball. In fact, I went to see him live once, […]

My mum has been cooking for weeks, getting ready for today. The garden looks perfect and the house is spotless. There were to be ten of us for lunch; it was Andrew’s birthday. Sadly, it was all in vein.
My grandmother (mum’s side) has been very ill since Thursday. For two days she was unconscious, but […]

Today was the first day of the Middlesex show, and LBC is doing a lot to promote it, including broadcasting live from its own tent at the show. The weather could not have been better, although the traffic could, but after several hold-ups and an abortive attempt to find sun oil at South Mimms services […]

How annoyed am I? Much as I am looking forward to Korea, it doesn’t make turning down the invite I got this morning any easier:
“As I’m sure you already know AOL is the official sponsor of Madonna’s Drowned World Tour, and we would like you to join us for her first UK show on Wednesday […]

If today was a review, it’d get five stars. Started off in Purley on a course I was a bit dubious about, wondering how you could do a team building day without the rest of your team there. I soon changed my mind after lunch, though. They took us out to a paddock behind the […]

I finally have a full show’s worth of guests for tomorrow night, so worked on some questions and then popped into ITN to drop off a minidisc with some emergency bits on it. I missed last week’s show, of course, being in Prague, so it was quite a shock to see the enormous election set […]