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I’ve been testing peripherals all day and I am utterly exhausted. It’s surprising how much it takes it out of you, sitting and testing eight of the same thing over and over and over again.

I’m enjoying the writing, but that always comes in fits and starts in a group test, and after eight hours work my word count for today it hovering at around the two thousand mark. Still, it’s the less interesting half of the tests completed - tomorrow I can take the kit out of the office and have some fun with it.

I had been intending to be at the office at nine to get a head start on it this morning, but the trains were held up by over running engineering work again so in the end I arrived at ten, still feeling quite springy from the gym. I’d not been at my desk five minutes before the PR of one of Thursday’s guests rang up to say she didn’t realise she’d agreed to put him forward for a radio interview. She was under the impression it was for print.

Hmmm…

Anyhow, I talked her into letting him stay and things look like they should be OK, although it’ll be a telephone interview, which is a pity.

I’m trying to find a cheap hotel in London for the beginning of May and am discovering that such things are few and far between, especially on a Wednesday night. I don’t know how holiday makers afford it. The only affordable ones are quite a way out, which isn’t much good.

I’m on a press trip seeing Kylie in Birmingham that night, and the ride home is scheduled to get to London some time late. Only trouble is, I have to be up in time to do the breakfast show trail in the morning, and I will probably have missed all the trains back to Essex by that time of night anyway. So, my plan was to find somewhere cheap and comfy in central London and then go into ITN on the Thursday morning to do the trail from the studio. After all, I haven’t been in since the launch of Windows XP back in October. I’ve not met Petrie, either, and it would be nice to put a face to a name on the end of the ISDN line.

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