If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Somehow the getting up and waking up before doing the breakfast show trail idea worked out. I had almost finished a huge bowlful of washing up and was half way through a cup of tea when they rang, and [...]

Microsoft gets the prize for inviting me to the first Christmas party of 2001 - in two weeks time at the Playing Fields. I really don’t know why PR people still go there. It’s one of those events you should really be at, though - they’re launching all of their kit for Christmas and the [...]

Sat up writing until the early hours of the morning, drinking tea until I had finished the whole first draft of the book. Paul and I had been talking about going away this weekend, although I’d got my weeks all mixed up and thought we were talking about some weekend or other later in August. [...]

A nice lunch with the people from Queen Mary college who wanted me to do their web site. We went to Lindys and they paid for it on expenses, which was a bonus. Sadly their deadlines meant I couldn’t do the site, though. The first bit had to be finished by the end of August, [...]

Mum had left food in the fridge for us last night so we ate that and started watching Johnny Mnemonic but it soon became clear why TV Times had only given it a one-star rating. The lights came on in next door’s garden so we ran upstairs to watch three fat badgers eating food on [...]

Today was supposed to start early, but we breakfasted about 11.30 and didn’t even put our shoes on until noon. Paul wanted to get shorts and a swimming towel in town, and I was still thinking about mobile phones and the Orange network, but then remembered what my bill comes to every month (about

Vanessa from LINX cancelled in the end, so I called Virgin Mobile instead and got through to the same music line I’d listened to for an hour and 35 minutes last night. I tried calling my voicemail again and pressed the requested 1 to discuss reconnection, but that put me through to the One2One operator [...]

I did my usual thing of getting up half an hour before the breakfast show trail and sat around like a vegetable until the phone rang at 7.20. I really must discipline myself to get up and wake up. I did record it this week and was pleasantly surprised that I sounded quite lively considering [...]

Did my homework on the train, as per homework etiquette, and arrived at the training sweatshop four minutes before start time, so eight minutes earlier than yesterday, and was still the first to appear. It was so hot again, and by 4 o’clock we had 35 pages of the flip pad blue-tacked to the walls, [...]