If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Braved the families and screaming kids of Asda this morning. What a nasty way to wake up. I was looking at the cheese graters in the utensils aisle when some snot-nosed child came up to me with a pastry […]

Paul had seen some houses he liked the look of in the local paper, so we went out to see them under clear blue skies. They always look best like that, so perhaps that’s not the best conditions in which to see them.
We were only going across town, but it took as long as the […]

The travel plans are getting decidedly complicated. I want to get to St Petersburg by train so I can see the countryside go by and take my time about things. Trouble is, to get a visa it seems you need some kind of a confirmation from your booking company and you also need to have […]

Sometimes I wish I worked at home. On Thursday mornings, when I have to get up and showered and dressed before the breakfast show trail I can actually set the alarm half an hour later than I do on the mornings I go straight into work, even though the trail is over two hours earlier […]

Well, my come home and go to bed early plan paid off and in spite of the ice on the car and the cold cold air I made it to the gym this morning. Admittedly it was only in time to watch the 8 o’clock news so I wasn’t hyper-early, but it’s better than I […]

Was disciplined enough to make breakfast yesterday morning (well, cut and butter a couple of buns) not not quite to get to the gym. Something to do with not sleeping until two in the morning the night before - if that makes sense.
I bumped into Paul on the platform. Evidently he’s had more success at […]

After a long run at the gym yesterday afternoon I bought pastry mix in Tesco. Big mistake. It took over an hour to get enough rolled out to cover the base of a fairly regular flan tin - it would have been quicker to start from scratch.
It got me all flustered and I forgot to […]

We all decamped to the John Snow after work. Laura left on the last day before Christmas but by that time most of us had left for our holidays, so there was nobody to sign her card, give her the Liverpool shirt we’d bought and had her name printed onto, or drink to her health […]

What I was doing still up gone midnight and awake at almost one last night, I don’t know, but it made waking up and getting up a particularly unpleasant experience. Nevertheless, I’d showered, shaved and dressed before the breakfast trail with Simon and I think it went well.
I picked up Paul on the way to […]

Had my line count upped to eight this morning. Two mobile numbers, three analogue phone lines, two ISDN channels and a cable modem. Perhaps a little excessive for a two-bedroom flat. They’re not all mine, of course. The ISDN channels, and the two analogue phone lines that go with them belong to ITN.
I was very […]