If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A morning full of running around - tidying up the house before moving back home, and scooting around Sainsbury’s to stock up the fridge before mum and Andrew arrived back home - and then in to London and Mike [...]

iPods are flying into the building at an astonishing rate now. It seems everyone has cottoned on to this 30% journalist discount, and as such it’s coming to a close next week - or so the story goes. Every time a nine-inch square box arrives in the postroom it’s obvious what it is, and slowly [...]

I could quite happily (and quite easily) have fallen asleep at the gym last night, so of course I was out like a light when my head hit the pillow, and I felt a lot better for it this morning. Now, though, just getting in from work at almost eleven, it’s back to square one.
It [...]

Every now and then I get invited to pre-release screenings of new films. It’s all very nice, but I’ve never really paid all that much attention to the small print on the invites before. I guess it’s all quite logical what it says - they don’t want the film’s secrets leaking out before it’s released, [...]

Cat booby-trapped the staircase last night, throwing up on both the top and bottom steps in the dark and waiting for me to stand in either or both with my bare feet.
Of course, I spoilt her fun by sleeping right through - I feel exhausted at the moment - and narrowly missing them when I [...]

‘Quite simply it’s perfect…’ it says on the cover.
All I could add are the words ‘in every possible way’.
After months of watching the price of the DVD drop on every trip to HMV, I finally bought Amelie today in the sale, and watched whatever mystery the slim green case contained. It exceeded all of my [...]

Hot again today, but the weather has broken. The sky has been covered in grey clouds, and now and then they have been spitting drops of rain. That hasn’t stopped the moron on the radio who clearly isn’t looking out of the window from talking about us all listening to him on our patios. He’s [...]

I’m going to have to stop uploading pictures to this site soon or the front page will take a dog’s age to load. The garden is just so beautiful, though, that I can’t resist taking more. In just one day I’ve taken about 120 - digital, fortunately.
Apart from being compressed and shrunk, the flower above [...]

Well, considering the distractions I did OK with the writing in the end yesterday, adding 4,300 words to the total and bringing me up to 89,329. Unfortunately at that point I reached burnout and had to stop, leaving me 671 words short of my target for the end of May, which was 90,000 words. Still, [...]