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The weekend has been… useful, I guess I’d say. I’ve done a lot of the things I’ve needed […]

A lot of good things happened today. While most of the office was busy packing crates ready to move desks this weekend I spent the day sitting at my desk, editing copy, safe in the knowledge that the desk I have today will still be my desk on Monday.
Lunch with the team at Soba, which […]

You’d think Britain was an island of pure coal and that last night’s rain had been not water but parrafin. The fire-fighters are striking and every official organisation seems to have fallen victim to a paralysing paranoia. Smoking has been banned at Chelmsford station - but if it is so dangerous then why was it […]

You forget a lot of things when you take a break from work. You forget that you didn’t have to go back to the office until Wednesday, not Tuesday. You forget that every time you go away something bad happens to your computer and you have to spend the first morning back rebuilding it. You […]

Was woken by the phone. I tried to ignore it, but heard the message when the answerphone picked it up. It was LBC breakfast, chasing a story on a new virus. I got up and called back, and agreed to do a live piece at 08h15. In the meantime, showered and got online to check […]

Well that was a busy weekend. Breakfast with mum on Saturday morning. French things in baskets and jars, new constructions in the garden, and a cat that is still too afraid to go to the loo outside since the fireworks. She peeps out, runs around the garden as though something is after her tail then […]

Rain. And plenty of its. A good day for staying in and working on the book. I only planned to plan, but ended up writing 3,000 fairly useable words, which is encouraging. Broke just after lunch for a zip around Sainsbury’s. Dad arrives tomorrow and my fridge was rather bare.
Quite how there can be enough […]

A brief reminder of what it is like to work today. It’s shocking how quickly you slip into the ‘normality’ of time off work. This morning’s 7am alarm was a shock. Fairly normal for a working day, but in the middle of a week off it’s a jolt. Still, I was showered and dressed and […]

The weather has been foul all day. It was pouring before I woke up. I could hear it on the window before I’d even emerged from beneath the duvet, and it did nothing but get harder until lunchtime. I was hoping I’d have seen some autumn this week. I had rusty leaves and red skies […]

I like little pussy, her coat is so warm,
and if I don’t hurt her she’ll do me no harm;
So I’ll not pull her tail, nor drive her away,
but pussy and I very gently will play