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It was a hot day yesterday – a day for shorts and going to work without a coat, but today the jeans were most definitely back out of the cupboard. Why is the weather so changeable, yet it is always too hot to sleep in the flat?
This morning’s breakfast show slot went well. A bit longer than last week, and we deviated from the subject a bit for a chat, so hopefully it came across as very friendly and accessible and boosted this evening’s audience.
Tonight’s was a good show, I think. I was still feeling exhausted from the last week, so had a strong coffee just before going on and felt a bit hyper for the first hour or so. I’ll have to listen to it back on the archive but I suspect I may have been a little shouty. I’ll have sounded lively if nothing else.
Will came in to do the news, and then Russell, who took me to the Outer Hebrides last month was on talking about OneTel teaming up with MTV to offer broadband concerts. Finally, perhaps a reason for people to sign up for broadband!
He has always been a fan of LBC – he told me when we were in Stornoway – and I think he was a little starstruck to be there. He asked to have a look around and see where Clive and Peter do their shows, so when we’d finished the interview I showed him studio 2. He seemed impressed.
We didn’t have time to chat for long, which was a shame, because I would have liked to have talked some more about Stornoway. Apparently the weather is turning bad there now – it always does at the end of June, which is one reason why he took me when he did. Apparently we saw the weather at its best.
Helped Steve write Saturday evening’s quiz show on the train home and was shocked how little of the week’s news I retain. I normally have News Direct or Radio 4 Today on in the car to the station in the morning, check the BBC site throughout the day and listen to both the 10pm Radio 4 extended news and 11pm hour-long news on the World Service every day, yet coming up with 14 questions on current events of the last week was not easy. Between us, we got 13, and even one of them was questionable.
No pun intended.
Life seems to be rather circular at the moment. Get up slightly later than intended, learn some German on the train. Lunch on the grass in Soho Square, some more German on the train home before I drift off somewhere around Ilford.
I almost didn’t wake up in time to get off yesterday evening. It’s been a busy two weeks and I feel utterly worn out. I woke myself up at the gym and had a think about things.
When the clocks changed at the start of Summer I resolved to get my book written before they went back again for winter. I’ve written down loads of ideas, and sketched out plenty of storylines, but words into chapters currently equates to around 500. Not good. If I could have my ideas in the right order I’d be laughing. Half of it would be written already and I’d not be feeling guilty about wasting time. It’s far easier, although ultimately less productive, to spend my spare time fiddline around with ideas for web sites.
What I need, ideally, is a month off work, so I can sit down every morning and spend the day putting things in the right order. I know where the story begins, and I know where it ends. I even know most of the things that happen in the middle, but what I don’t know is the order those things go in, or how they lead you from the opening chapter to the closing sentence.
I even drew a big picture last weekend to try and get things in the right order bit by the time I’d finished it was so full of arrows, of three different colours, going in four different directions, I think I was even further away from knowing what the book was about than when I started.
Part of me says just forget it. It’s not worth the frustration, and you could be doing far more fun things than trying to work out what a bunch of characters who don’t even exist are doing, but I’d determined to see it through.
I just don’t think I’m going to hit my end of summer deadline.
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