It may have been Saturday but I had loads to do today. I’m glad to say I made good progress.

I was out of bed, showered, dressed and sitting at my screen before I’d usually even be at work. I called Mark and arranged for Ja to pop around and borrow one of my cameras. They are off touring the kingdom for a week from this afternoon and wanted some way to record their trip.

He arrived in his flash new convertible car, which I sat in and made the apporpriate appreciative noises as he demonstrated the electric seats, electric roof and cruise control, although he did agree with me that engaging cruise control for anything more than two or three minutes at a time on the British roads would be something of an achievement.

So, he popped off with the camera in the boot and the roof down and I returned to my screen with a string of cups of coffee lined up to stave off the hunger until lunch. I get a real sense of achievement working from home - I get far more done, even if it is the weekend when I should be out playing in the sun.

Paul came around and we ate lunch on our laps in front of repeats on the telly. They weren’t even particularly good repeats, but we watched them already, then kind of feel into Who Wants to be a Millionaire and sat wide-eyed and open mouthed like drowning fish for the next thirty minutes. Have we nothing better to do than watch repeats of well-worn formats?

Hmmm…

Must have an early night tonight. Tomorrow is episode two of London this Week.

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