I love media spats. I really do. After all, if you’re going to sit back and enjoy a war of words, you want it to be between people who make words their craft. So you can imagine my unmitigated joy at the cat fight that has broken out between the BBC and the Wall [...]

Women.
Do my fucking head in.
That is all.

In the nicest possible way, the next person to send me that ‘Missing Maddy’ email forward thing is going to get unsubscribed as a friend. Is there seriously *anyone* in Britain who receives that email and thinks to themselves ’shit, I didn’t know she’d gone missing. When did that happen?’.
Don’t get me wrong, I can’t [...]

Finally, FINALLY, I have broadband at home. To celebrate I went out yesterday and bought a special chair and desk. This means working late doesn’t necessarily mean a half hour cab ride home at 1am.
So it is that I’m sitting in my living room, watching the West Wing season one, working on a proposal and [...]

I’m very pleased with myself today. I mean, more so than usual, and with some reason.
For the last few weeks, my days have gone like this…
Wake up stupidly early.Have breakfast.Walk out of front door onto a bus.Miss train from Denmark Hill by 2 minutes.Pace.Catch train from Denmark Hill half an hour later.Arrive at work.Work until [...]