If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!First day back at the office, and to get me into the swing of things there is no useable tube service from Liverpool Street. The Central Line still isn’t going anywhere near the middle of the city and signal […]

It looks like the team from The Day Today has started writing the BBC News web site.

Update: it’s since been corrected.

Mothers’ Day, today, so first stop Sainsbury’s to sort out lunch. Cruised the aisles picking up recipe bits and bobs, then zizzed home to tidy the flat and start cooking. For a while, I thought I had far longer to get things sorted than I actually did - damned clock change. Why can’t we just […]

Well, it’s been a busy couple of days. My eBay delvery arrived yesterday, so I’m uncrossing those fingers. Actually, it didn’t quite arrive. I missed it and found a card poked through the door so had to go pick it up, but at least it’s here. And going into town to collect it meant […]

Well, my plans for tripping around the place and meeting people this week have rather fallen through. That’s a shame, but it has given me loads of time for writing. Over the last two days I’ve put down 10,119 words, and almost 7,000 of that was today. That puts my total for the week so […]

How fantastic to be off work for a day. A week, in fact, but we’ll take it one day at a time.
It is a week with two missions, though. First, to break the back of the book writing. Susie and I sat in the Movie Cafe on Friday and I promised there and then that […]

It’s been a varied weekend. The one constant has been the glorious blue skies and bright warm sun. Paul came around on Saturday morning and we walked into town. I needed some random bits and bobs, but nothing heavy and it would have been sacrilige to use the car in such great weather.
There was a […]

Who is looking after Eddie while Martin Crane is out in the Gulf?

above left: Martin Crane, from popular TV show Frasier
above right: General Tommy Franks, commander of the allied troops in the Gulf

The Sun is known for other things than its tact. Following the Hillsborough Disaster when 96 Liverpool supporters were killed in a crush at a football stadium it ran a two word headline: ‘The Truth’. The truth, as the Sun saw it, was that some fans had been picking the pockets of the dead, while […]

I’m feeling very proud of myself this evening. I went to the gym with a mission, and added twenty lengths onto my swimming record. Now I feel all taught and just a little woosy. My eyes and feet are already asleep - only my fingers are moving as I sit here slumped in my seat, […]