I really haven’t worked out these early morning trails in the breakfast show. I know what I should do. I should set my alarm at ten to seven and do things that will wake me up, but instead I set it for ten to seven and then sit on the settee for half an hour waiting for the 7.20 phone call, so my head is always full of sleep when it comes.

I’d carefully revised my notes on virus attacks, but we ended up talking about phone scams in the end so I really needn’t have worried.

I did some washing and then washing up and caught a late train into London.

I didn’t go into the office. I went back to Le Meridien for a technology seminar and spent the morning and most of the afternoon looking at print heads under microscopes and scanners under slides. Plents of engineers over from Japan to explain how everything worked, and plenty of cheesy sandwiches and mouse-y deserts to add inches to the waist.

It was the kind of food that makes it difficult to stay awake through the afternoon, but someone had left the windows open over Piccadilly so the room quickly cooled down and pricked our senses.

I scooted into the office on the way out to ITN to check my mail and download the latest headlines.

Tonight’s was not a bad show. I had fun. Gordon was away, and Chris did a great job of making a new jingle with just my name on it by sampling bits from the other jingles and pasting them back together in the appropriate order. We did a consumer shopping feature with Amazon and Computeractive, which was fun, but I found the virus chat hard going. Throughout the show the travel people were saying the Central Line had been shut down, so the nice man from Amazon gave me and engineer Steve a lift back to Liverpool Street and charged it to his PR account.

But I’m home now and I’m going to go to bed. I’ve had enough late nights and early mornings and I think I owe my duvet some quality time. It would be nice to have a read before I sleep.

One day…

1. Gordon returns
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2. Showtime
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3. Showtime
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