If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!In spite of my best intentions last night, I missed the gym this morning. I woke up dozy and decided to cut my hair instead. That’s probably not the best thing to do when you’re still half asleep and […]

My Sunday mornings are no longer spent in bed. The alarm goes off at eight. I’m in the shower fifteen (or so) minutes later. I’m out the door before nine.
I was going to head straight into London, but was transfixed by the fog when I got to the end of the road, so diverted to […]

Slept on Sal’s futon last night, and was woken at 08h30 by Dan’s alarm and the noise being made by the upstairs neighbours. They have fooden floors and when theeir dog wags its tail it sounds like someone doing DIY. Oscar was sleeping on my bed and, seeing I was awake, climbed beneath the duvet […]

Dag racing rocks. I’ve been looking forward to it for weeks, but it was even better than I’d thought it might be.
We left the office at half six, having already been drinking vanilla vodka for an hour. Not only was it my birthday celebration, I had also been presented with my long service award at […]

This morning was the first time in almost three weeks that I’d done the breakfast show piece on the ISDN. Last week Richard Whiteley did it instead, and the weeks before that I was cat sitting so I did it by phone. It was fun, being back doing it properly, and I think that came […]

So today the tube workers were on strike, demanding a better pay rise than they have been offered. By all accounts it was a very successful strike, too. On previous occasions (the last one was a mere 6 months ago) at least some of the trains kept running on most lines. Today, though, there were […]

Yay for birthdays. Even if you do have to go to work.
Stopped in at Sainsburys for donuts and cookies on the way into the office. I’d quite gladly let the whole event slip by but it’s up on the noticeboard so there’s no ignoring it.
I felt at least partly vindicated in buying fatty food for […]

So that was it. My last day of being 28. Tomorrow I will be 29. An age people put on personal ads when they won’t admit they’re over 30.
It’s not been a bad year. I’m still working in an industry I enjoy, with people I like. I have visited two new countries to add to […]

The train into London this morning was full of green padded body warmers (gillets?). The farmers were revolting (their words, not mine) - protesting for their liberty and their livelihoods. 400,000 people descended on London and television news anchors called it the biggest demonstration in British history.
The MP Liam Fox was marching with them. I […]

I’m getting very excited about my German adventure. I’ve been reading Lonely Planet on my delayed trains and purely by chance I seem to have picked an excellent route. Whether anything could really be as good as the book claims it to be, we’ll see. I’m guessing it was written by a bunch of very […]