If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well, I would have written an update yesterday. I would have done a lot. If I’d got home in time. I’d arranged with Kevin that we’d go to the gym together, and left the office bang on six. I […]

Well, I made it into the office today. Nice though it would have been to have spent another day at home the trains were running sufficiently well as not to provide an acceptable excuse. They were horribly full, though, and I ended up walking half way to the office because I couldn’t get onto a […]

I woke up to unhappy train fairies. There were still narked at what the weather had done to their tracks and overhead cables and were holding up the commuters. Chelmsford station was closed for a while, and sporadic buses were ferrying miserable commuters from one end of each blockage to the other. It was being […]

Today was a perfect day for staying in with cups of tea and pieces of hot toast, curled up in a comfortable chair under a thick soft blanket with a good book and the radio on. It was inevitable, then, that I’d have to venture out into the worst weather for a year.
Friday night’s gusty […]

Autumn has well and truly settled in around Higlhlands House, home to the V Festivals.

It has rained most of the day, so of course the train was late this morning. It’s surprising how often the two coincide - bad weather and late trains. Or perhaps you just notice it more when it’s raining and you’re sheltering in the cold beneath the platform’s noisy iron canopy.
So, trying to forget the […]

This morning’s breakfast show featurette was one of the best in a long while. I don’t know why - it just felt good. I switched off the ISDN at the end of it and went into work with a smile. Hopefully it came across well, too, but it’s so often difficult to tell. I […]

Oh, what a difference a sunny day makes. From morning until night we had bright sunshine and no clouds. It was bitterly cold in the shadows, but that didn’t matter. As long as there is sun you can smile and feel good.
Mooched across to Holborn for coffee with Sam at lunchtime, and chats about Sunday’s […]

My CD player is happily singing away to itself. I don’t know what was wrong with it, but I’ve fiddled around with the internals, reseated some connections and tweaked the SuSE control centre. One of them, or a combination of all three, seems to have sorted it out, and now the flat is full of […]

Never has food shopping been so satisfying. I had a nibble before I went, of course, or I would have ended up buying the whole shop, and that would have been a very “bad thing” indeed.
After weeks of eating strange food combinations so I could clear out my cupboards and freezer I finally got to […]