If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The efficiency bug has bitten hard. I edited proofs, sipping tea within minutes of waking up. That wasn’t early after last night’s late night, of course, but it still made me feel rightly righteous. Got up and mooched into […]

I’m home, albeit briefly, between going out and going out. It’s half past ten. We’ve just got back from a barbeque at the house of Paul’s friend from work. It turned out to be a kids’ birthday party, complete with jelly and ice cream, and chocolate-covered rice crispie cakes. There was a stack of modelling […]

This morning’s breakfast show piece went very well. It was quite short, as they have been recently, but was chatty and fun, and we laughed a bit, which I always like as it makes the whole idea of computers far less scary to the uninitiated, hopefully drumming up more interest in this evening’s programme.
A slow […]

The news seems to be dominated by issues of race this morning. David Blunkett is encouraging us all to continue flying our national flags (which is apparently the Union Flag / St George Cross, not the European flag) even after the World Cup is over and the jubilee is just a distant memory. Trouble is, […]

Certainly the most important news story yesterday was Bush’s speech on the Middle East. The most interesting one, though, hardly got any coverage at all. The first September 11th-related divorce has just finished making its way through the American legal system:
A man who worked on the 103rd floor of the World Trade Center was seeing […]

It was such a lovely morning that I couldn’t bear the thought of taking the tube, so caught the bus instead and rode on the top deck with the sun streaming in. My phone went somewhere around Aldwych. I missed it, but the voicemail was from IRN, wanting to know if I could do an […]

I had to do one of the most awful things I’ve ever done this morning. I drowned a bird. A small black and white cat had been pulling its feathers out as I was making coffee, looking particularly proud of its catch. The bird was laying still on the grass, looking particularly dead. The cat […]

Third weekend in June - it must be the Middlesex Show. It’s a long way around the M25 - further than Heathrow, but it’s an LBC sponsored event, and good fun.
The postman woke me up, slamming my letterbox some time after seven, then banging on the door ten minutes later. There was no way I […]

Aah, another wonderful morning on the trains. We really should play football more often. Half empty carriages on a train that is normally full, and plenty of seats on the tube at a time when you’d normally have to let three or four go before you could even hope of getting close to the edge […]

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It was a hot day yesterday - a day for shorts and going to work without a coat, but today the jeans were most definitely back out of the cupboard. Why is […]