If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I had the very uncomfortable experience of watching PR carnage today at the BT Tower. Normally you’re not allowed inside. Someone planted a bomb above a roof tile on the 31st floor back in the 1970s. It exploded at […]

The breakfast show trail went well. A bit of fun, a few laughs, no difficult questions. I was in the middle of doing the washing up and they rang me a bit early to listen to the caller they were talking to before me in case they wanted to ask me anything about it, but […]

At the age of 28 I’ve suddenly hit 50. Monday night’s late night out is still dragging me down, and I ended up catching the last possible train to work this morning to still get in on time. Actually, that’s a bit of a lie. I was on the platform in time for the train […]

The best news in a long long time arrived in my email today with a message from a guy called Jeremy saying that he had taken over publishing my book from Joyce. Perhaps now things will actually start moving again. It’s ironic, really, because it was only yesterday that I was reading through the contract […]

Up so very very early. I don’t know how or why. Made it onto a train just after half seven that should have turned up at just after seven, and was in the office at half eight. Spooky quiet again. It’s quite nice being in at that time of day, actually.
Mark came back from his […]

Woke at an obscene time, just before the alarm and decided I may as well flop around until it went off. This is the first weekend in ages I’ve not spent both mornings working in bed, as I got everything done on the way on Friday night - praise the Lord for broken down trains!
Had […]

I will never, ever book tickets at an Odeon cinema again. I should have learnt from the Moulin Rouge experience, but foolishly logged on to its slow site again this morning to get tickets for Harry Potter.
The first five minutes were spent trying to get the front page menu working so I could select Chelmsford […]

I thought I ought to spend some time getting up to date with what our readers are saying about us, so spent an hour reading through the letters database. I thought I got a lot of spam (today’s selection included spam for the rather bizarre sockstuff.com - for the over 18s only) but it’s nothing […]

Yesterday started with one of those bizarre meetings where you all sit around like members of SPECTRE, telling other people what your magazine has just done and what plans are in the pipeline for the future. It’s always interesting to hear what the other magazines are doing, but invariably, if you don’t jump up and […]

I am very chuffed with my new desk. I have a window, sunlight, reception on my phone, which resolutely refused to see the network at my old desk, and a view of the ladies toilets, police college and drug users down on Broadwick Street. I’m also close to the drinks machine, but far enough away […]