My plan was to spend the whole of today locked in my office with my nose to the grindstone, my pedal to the metal, and all other metaphors for working very hard. Mandi was going to shopping with one of her workmates so I had the place to myself to get some serious work done. My alarm was set for ten o’clock, which on a Saturday is actually the middle of the night. I vaguely remember Mandi telling me she was heading out but I didn’t actually wake up again until half past twelve, and to be honest I could have slept for far longer. My working day was pretty much fucked so I had to make the best of it. My first task was to take Jack to the park where we spent about forty minutes playing with his ball until he got bored and picked up his ball and walked to the gate which is the signal that he wants to go home. By now it was about two o’clock and I had to pop to the shop for milk and a newspaper, not having time to read a proper newspaper I bought what is now known as the Weekend Post. Quite what the idea behind this was I don’t know as the local paper doesn’t take a long time to read so how they expected it to spread over Sunday too I don’t know. Breakfast was two fried egg sandwiches and two mugs of tea while listening to a bit of Pick of the Pops and having some anxiety about having to get some work done.

Today was my deadline for recording The Sunday Alternative and that is really the only constructive thing I accomplished today. For the first time ever I actually managed to record the podcast to last exactly half an hour long. In fact it was a few seconds over but it was as near as I’ve ever come while I’ve been doing it. With a win like that under my belt I didn’t feel so bad about getting fuck all else done today.

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