If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I feel very righteous at having got a lot of jobs done today that have been sorted out a while ago. I went into town with Paul first thing to buy a frame for my new picture, and put [...]

What a wonderfully weird day. My post this morning included a very suspicious looking package from Ghana addressed simply to the Editor. When I opened it up, I found a letter from a guy who wanted me to help him get a visa because he is a “brilliand but needy” student. He’d even included his [...]

Today went so according to plan that it was almost mundane. The trail in the breakfast show went well. It was short, but compact and got the message across. My train ran more or less to time, with only a short pause at the half-way mark and I was in work 20 minutes before the [...]

I have had some bad travel the last couple of weeks, but today tops the lot. It started out OK. I went to the gym and then caught the 8.55. It should get to London by 9.31. It didn’t. At 9.10 we came to a halt between Shenfield and Brentwood, and there we sat until [...]

This morning’s delay was undefined. The driver, sounding rather annoyed, announced that he had been given no information. This evening we sat outside Gidea Park for fifteen minutes. The driver said it was because of a speed restriction on the track, but by the time we got to Chelmsford this had become a defect on [...]

I’ve just finished installing Windows XP and it feels like I’m using a whole new computer. Everything is rounded, and the buttons and title-bars are pretty new colours. I’m rather taken by it all, actually - but then I’m superficial like that.
I did an enormous backup of all my important stuff before starting out, and [...]

The alarm went off at half past eight (an obscene time of day for a Sunday) and as I’ve not had any milk since Wednesday I couldn’t even lessen the shock with a cup of tea. Fortunately there was coffee and croissants and a cat that refused to come in from the garden waiting around [...]

It’s not been a bad week, all things considered. Perhaps it’s because it was the first week back from holiday. Last night, though, I was totally wiped out. As soon as I got on the train I could feel all my energy disappearing and by the time I got home my legs were already losing [...]

The breakfast show trail went very well. Lots of fun and a bit of laughter, which was probably about right for a drizzly morning. Of course, the damp weather meant the rails were ’slippery’ so my train arrived in London about 20 minutes late. Were the trains really this bad before I went away, or [...]

It was very strange walking into the office knowing that I really was at the controls this time around. At least for a while, anyway. Although I’ve been making a lot of the decisions over the direction of the magazine for the last year there has always been someone to refer to to if need [...]