If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Well it’s been an eventful couple of days. I’m working from home in the mornings, which when you start at 7h30 means you still get in six and a half hours before lunch. The afternoons, though, have been my […]

It’s 05h20, and I’ve already been up and working half an hour. It’s a strange time of day, which I haven’t worked since doing the breakfast show shifts at Gfm 15 years ago. I’d forgotten how secret and conspiratorial it feels listening to Radio 4 at this time of day.
A tired-sounding man is plodding through […]

It’s cold here. Everest came this morning and replaced all but one of the upstairs windows. It was shocking both how quickly they managed to lever out what we had previously thought of as fairly secure frames, and how quickly the cold rushed in to fill the void.
Last week, you see, was all hot and […]

Two weeks today, I become a home owner again. Very exciting, although to be honest I think I’m more seat-edgey about getting space for deckchairs, and an old wooden-framed greenhouse than I am a two-storey home with central heating that I can actually turn on and off whenever I want, a fire and space for […]

I had my first Mars bar in four years today. The sun was shining, and it was surprisingly hot, so we went out Alton Water, just south of Ipswich. It didn’t look so big on the map, but when we set out to walk around the rim, we discovered that maps can be deceiving.
It took […]

There’s a leak in Nandos on the South Bank, somewhere above table 23. That’s where Rich and I sat on Monday night, after a trip to the Design Museum to look at organic cars, boats and planes fashioned after manta rays, flames and enormous boomerang-style mono-wings.
It was only when the drips started working their way […]

Went to look at the house again at the weekend. It’s only the second time I’ve been and already, with contracts exchanged a couple of weeks ago, I’m committed to buying it.
So, I was a bit apprehensive about going there, in case I should suddenly realise I’ve made a terrible mistake (but then I bought […]

County Hall
I’d suggested we head out to Canary Wharf to take pictures of London’s tallest buildings before winter is gone and the darkness comes later. I wanted to catch the steam coming off the top of One Canada Square before winter is behind us and it turns too warm.
So, we met in front of Bush […]