Well, the invites are getting stranger by the day. Today, an offer of a week being taught how to ski. The only stipulation: that you’ve never skied before. No meetings, no briefings, nothing being launched. In fact, it wasn’t even an invite from a computer company, and they knew full well what the magazine was about so it’s not like they can have been expecting any coverage.

Skiing had never really appealed, though. The whole idea of trudging all the way up a mountain in heavy garish clothing just so you can go back down can’t be a fruitful way to spend a week.

There was a far more relevant trip to Sardinia for ‘beach front activities’ (and a couple of meetings) in the same batch of email, but it falls on an awkward week, so I ended up passing on that one, too. Still, I have tickets to Euro 2004 lined up, so I’m going to have to start learning the rules of football before the summer.

And get around to renewing my passport.

It’s been a bizarre few days. The new design magazine is finally out - it feels like we’ve been working on it for ages - and there has been plenty of feedback, so it’s been interesting reading what everyone has to say. As time goes on and more people are having a good go at reading it the feedback is getting more and more positive, which is always nice to read.

We celebrated its release on Tuesday night, when subscribers would have been arriving home to find it on their doormats, starting off at La Perla and ending up in the Eagle Bar and Diner, where they’d run out of root beer and the hour-long wait for a table was over in 15 minutes. Fab place.

How we got onto talking about sex aids, I don’t know, but I arrived at my desk the following morning (yesterday) to find an enormous black dildo stood upright in front of my keyboard, with a ‘blow bib‘ wrapped around it.

Note to self: make more of an effort to remember conversations.

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