Channelling my inner Howard...

There's an episode in Ever Decreasing Circles when the ordinarily mild and gentle Howard turns into a formidable figure after people assume he's going to lose a snooker match to the main character, Martin. He had been turned down for a job and was fed up with being so nice and not winning at anything. His stern face and demeanour while playing snooker make Martin wonder what on earth has happened to him! And, of course, he wins. It's a hilarious episode, but there is a grain of darkness about the situation, and I channelled my inner Howard this morning when I stayed in my car until almost 8:00am, enjoying my porridge and listening to Radio 2 with Scott Mills. I have missed listening to the Easiest Quiz on the radio! No more going in and starting work so early! What thanks do I get? Sara and Sheila get to go early as they arrive at 7:30am, but I don't!

I also spent much of the morning concentrating on the cinema work I do, and left all the cancellation emails for someone else to tackle. From now on, I might remind Sara and Nicola that I don't have time to do everything I normally do. Ha! How to demotivate a member of staff!

At 4:00pm, I drove home, and it took me fifty minutes to do the commute. I suppose that's better than yesterday, when it took Keith and me an hour to get home. An hour! My journey used to take me thirty minutes on a bad day!

I was mightily glad it was Friday, and although Sophie and I had planned on watching the original Rebecca, we were both put off by the annoying line down the middle of the television screen. In the end, we turned it off and Sophie prepared our dinner of chilli and nachos served with four Mexican dips.

After we'd eaten, we watched both episodes of Alan Carr and Amanda Holden in Corfu. The island is stunningly beautiful and made me want to weep. Fancy living there and renovating houses for a living!