It looked like it was going to be grotty, but as I was on the tube the clouds all seemed to disappear and by the time I came back above ground at Tottenham Court Road station the sky was a beautiful clear blue and the sun was shining brightly.

I decided to avoid Benjy’s, or the Sainsbury’s Danish cabinets and start a new regime of healthy breakfasts, so bought bananas and Be Good To Yourself cereal bars. Whether I can convince myself to repeat the exercise once they are gone… we’ll have to wait and see.

In the meantime, I had a bit of a think about this week’s show. It’s supposed to be the round-the-world show I’ve been planning since before Christmas, but there are still a couple of key gaps in my route of interviews around the planet. The notable exception is anyone lined up for around India, largely because it will be about three in the morning for them, so understandably they’re not too keen on the idea of staying up to talk to me.

Which leaves me with a bit of a dilemma… do I go ahead with it and have a big jump between the Japanese and Russian interviews (several thousand miles) or do I line up a new set of guests for a regular show and postpone the round-the-world show for a few weeks?

At the moment, I’m erring on the side of postponement. I already have some interested (and interesting) people keen to come on this week, including anonymous mobile phone dating, and Oxford University (obviously not at the same time, though).

Hmmm.

Came home via Sainsbury’s to satisfy a sausage craving. Vegetarian, of course. I’ve been thinking about them for days. Got lost somewhere in the meat aisles (doh) and then dashed home to watch Delia Smith. It’s thirty minutes of pure escapism. She seems to be eternally trapped in a world where everyone gets on, there are never any arguments, there is no war, there are cats in ever garden and vases of flowers on every table.

Truly idyllic.

Half an hour of that is enough to make anyone happy and refreshed, although Gordon has a slight distrust of her because ‘you never see her taste what she cooks’. He has a point.

To maintain some kind of balance, and remind me that not everything in the world is perfect, Windows then threw this rather sarcastic error message:

1. The launch of Windows XP
   I woke up on the first of my nine alarms, which was a result, and was out of bed before the second one went off,...
   
   
2. Losing track of time
   I lost track of time today. Quite literally. My watch sent itself on a mystery tour and hid on top of my freezer, hunkered down...
   
   
3. New job
   I happen to know for a fact that there are some jobs going at BT on account of ______ conducting all the interviews on the...