If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Apart from a long delay on the tubes in this morning, today was humdrum. Hard work, but humdrum. I think the weekend wore me out - it was probably yesterday morning’s early hike across the floodplain. I find all [...]

I set this morning’s alarm early last night and was out of bed by seven. Not bad for a Sunday. I wanted to get out onto the flood plain before the mist from the river was burnt off by the sun.
I wrapped up under plenty of layers, but could still feel the cold inside my [...]

I slept off last night’s late night through most of the morning, waking at six thirty, some time after eight and then just before the alarm went off at eleven. By then it was way too late for breakfast, so I skipped it in favour of lunch and downloaded my email. Rather curiously, there was [...]

Far too much drink consumed today, especially for a light drinker. I’m sitting here in bed trying to follow the letters as they wander across the screen. As far as PCW is concerned, today was Christmas. We broke off at lunchtime and went to Soho Pizzeria to mark it (and Jason’s birthday). It was [...]

I woke up early enough to make breakfast again this morning - half an hour after the alarm went off, just like yesterday. Assuming things continue like this until the Christmas break I should be OK. I’ve got loads on at the moment, and a meeting every morning and afternoon from now until the end [...]

Today was one of those unusual mornings where I woke up very early (well, within 30 minutes of the alarm first going off) and was up in time to make some breakfast that I packed into my bag and took into work. It was far more than I usually eat, but I felt starved when [...]

My last day as acting editor, officially. Dylan starts tomorrow as our new Editor. He’s arriving at a good time. We should be reading the last few pages of the current issue tomorrow so he’ll be starting on a clean fresh magazine from Wednesday.
I’m happy with the two issues I’ve headed up, and it’s been [...]

My fears about turning middle aged at the age of 28 manifested themselves again this morning when I spent the first part of the day under the bedsheets with the broadsheets and a cup of tea. I worked my way slowly through the travel, Saturday and Editor sections of The Guardian and it was still [...]

After the excitement of yesterday, today has been a bit flat. Was up at a decent hour, though, and at the gym by 10. That’s twice already since leaving work last night. After that I drove into Chelmsford, heaving with Christmas crowds, for a rather unproductive hunt around the shops. Couldn’t find anything I was [...]