If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Sundays shouldn’t start as early as today did, but I wanted to get in to ITN early to read through my notes. As it happened, after various faffing incidents I rolled in around ten and bumped into Sam in [...]

Summer went by so quickly I barely noticed it passing. I’m determined not to let autumn do the same. Before we know it, it’ll be winter. The trees will be bare and the ground will be either rock hard or wet and muddy. It will get dark in the middle of the afternoon and all [...]

Yesterday was a fairly good radio day. A nice light-hearted, well structured piece in the breakfast show and a fun programme in the evening. It was the first show Gordon and I had done together in three weeks, what with him being away in Japan for a fortnight and me being in Germany for six [...]

Now normally you couldn’t pay me to go to Hamleys but the grey weather was getting us all down. Anyhow, that’s how I ended up there at lunchtime with Kathryn and Emilie, reliving a childhood I thought had left me more than a decade ago.
To be honest, I’m surprised we didn’t get thrown out for [...]

I extracted my travelogue from my Handspring today and pasted it into a document (I would say Word document, but I’m an Openoffice convert). It came to 24 pages of A4, and that was with narrow margins.
14,000 words in six days, written on a PDA. Hmmm… Is that obsessive?
I’ve printed it for editing on [...]

There’s nothing like getting back to your desk after a week away to find over 700 emails in your inbox. It took over an hour to sort the wheat from the chaff - and that was just going through the subject lines to pick out the usual suspects. Even with the chaff discarded (and it [...]

So, an early morning. So much for relaxing after my week on the rails. Up at half six, and on yet another train - not nearly as nice this time - shortly after eight. First stop when I got to ITN was of course the canteen, to buy caffiene to keep my eyes open.
I spent [...]

Now matter how enjoyable your journey, it is always nice to arrive back home. Back to my own bed, my own kitchen, and a pile of email and voicemails that need attention.
It was a good journey back. It seems the German trains run the same on a Saturday (and a Sunday for all I know) [...]

Cologne is very pretty, but unless you want to spend your whole time shopping or looking around the cathedral it has been rather over-egged by the guidebook.
So, I mooched around until lunchtime, having had an extravagant lay in (9am in spite of the fact the cleaners were banging on my door well before I emerged [...]

Cologne is very pretty, but unless you want to spend your whole time shopping or looking around the cathedral it has been rather over-egged by the guidebook.
So, I mooched around until lunchtime, having had an extravagant lay in (9am in spite of the fact the cleaners were banging on my door well before I emerged [...]