You can tell it’s Christmas week. Well, as far as work is concerned, anyway. The presents have started to arrive. A crate of beer from Videologic, champagne or hampers for most of the team from Mesh, and from Kyocera a picture of me, printed out using a fairly stripey printer. I think it could do with some fresh toner. It’s quite good, actually, but I don’t know where they got the picture they based it on. Going on the angle and gormless grin I’m guessing it was probably the one at the top of my column.

Very cold today. There have been heating engineers banging on the vents in the walls of the office, too, trying to coax some warmth out of them, but so far to no avail. By the time I left, my legs were ready to drop off.

I worked late and got to Liverpool Street to find red stripes across the whole of the board for my line. Everything was delayed and trains that were due to leave forty minutes before hadn’t even arrived. Tedious, but fortunately I picked one of the supposedly later options while everyone else crammed onto the platforms where the earlier trains should have been, and we left on time - before everyone else, and with hardly anyone on board. Very comfortable.

We hung around on the track for ages just outside Stratford, which scuppered my plans to go to the gym, so I spent the evening tweaking the site. I’ve set it all up using templates to make things quicker but it means I’ll have to discipline myself to keep the top banner topical.

Bedded far too late with the proofs of the March issue group tests.

1. Pics
   It's the end of the school term, so Sal had organised her class to put on Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat for the parents...
   
   
2. So this is Christmas
   Christmas is over. I've finished the shopping, everything is wrapped and now all that needs doing is the dishing out and opening up. And the...
   
   
3. Journeys
   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...