At the time of writing I am now ten chapters into the audio book and quite a long way off with The Record Store Day Video. Given that the audio book is due for release in December and TRSDV in April, I suppose I do at least have my priorities right. I am working flat out to get the audio book done as I am not keen to let it leak into next week if I can help it, and The Sunday Alternative needs recording too. At ten o’clock last night I downed tools and took Jack to the park with his ball, it’s too hot for him during the day and even at teatime so it was nice for him to be able to have a run around as he must have been bored sitting in my office watching me work. I had to stop recording at one point when he started randomly barking, which I would probably have kept in the podcast but doesn’t really make for good audio book listening.

Next week’s job is to write and record six editions of The Shoebox Demos which I am fairly confident will be a quick and easy job (although given the fact that I seem to have a curse on me something will come along and fuck it up). I can’t remember why I gave myself one week for some jobs and two weeks on others. I have allowed myself three weeks to gather information for a documentary that I’ll be working on next year, and I have left room for that to spill over and take priority over everything else.

We’re still ploughing through the Frasier DVDs, currently on series three. I thought for some reason that we had four series but it turns out we only have the first three. Mandi has tracked down the fourth series to a shop in Beeston which is where we’ll be heading on Saturday and also finding a café to have breakfast. No offers of a newspaper or magazine column writing about the full English breakfast have been forthcoming, so for now I am eating fry-ups for my health. Not my health I suppose, but you know what I mean.

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