If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!What a marvellous feeling to know that I don’t have to go to work again for a whole two weeks. That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with where I work - simply the concept of work. Two weeks […]

I almost didn’t wake up for the breakfast show trail, so it was a good job I’d turned the answerphone off. It was one of those mornings when you half wake up but not quite all the way. Eventually I managed to drag myself out from under the duvet with ten minutes to spare and […]

Had an email mid-afternoon confirming our booking in Bordeaux for the end of the week after next, followed three minutes later by another email cancelling our Lyon booking. The trouble with not really knowing a city, though, is that you don’t know what’s a good area and what isn’t, so hunting for an alternative online […]

The change in the weather today is amazing. Freezing cold, and very very windy. For the first time, too, I have noticed the evening is darker. We’ll probably be in deepest winter when we get back from holiday. I went round to mum’s to pick up the food and milk I had forgotten yesterday, then […]

Finally got the holiday plans sorted out after a concerted effort to get up at a decent hour. Eurostar to Paris on the 22nd, and stopping in a hotel at Montmartre for two nights, then TGV down to Lyon for three nights, another TGV to Avignon to stop off with dad for a bit, regional […]

A very busy day. Lots of work things - and on a Saturday, too! Started out trying to get the holiday sorted out first, though - we go a week today, so we’re cutting it fine already. I think I’ve worked a do-able route around the country with hotels in the right places and trains […]

Somehow I got to bed well after midnight last night. I don’t know where the time went. Sorting out those bills, I think, so I woke up only briefly when the alarm went off this morning, then went straight back to sleep. The next thing I knew Maisie was banging on the door, wanting to […]

Set the alarm for a little later this morning, so I was up just in time to make a cup of tea before the breakfast show trail. We talked about how the Internet coped with the demand placed on it by people wanting information and to get in touch with friends after the terrorist attacks […]

Woke up feeling very depressed about this whole terrorist attack thing. It was all the papers were talking about, and every newspaper seemed to have the same front-page picture of the World Trade Centre in flames. Had two rather self-serving emails about it in the office - one from a company saying ‘hey, all our […]

What a terrible day. Three planes deliberately flying into buildings in America, the World Trade Centre destroyed. Thousands of people undoubtedly dead. I really don’t know what to feel. I was on a course when we heard. The rest of the afternoon was pretty distracted and we left just after four. I arrived at Liverpool […]