It’s a bit of a mixed blessing really isn’t it? I mean Nadine Baggott has become a household name - beauty editor of the blah blah etc. and all that - but although it would seem to be a real coup to be so widely known amongst the TV advert watching multitude I can’t say I would want to be the ‘face’ that most people watching TV would like to see pushed through a wall. It has to go on the list I’m afraid. The list of adverts I would be happy to never EVER see again. And if I ever meet her I shall be forced to tell her exactly what to do with her pentapeptides, and where to stick them.

I have become such an appallingly poor correspondent on here but I often sit down to write and realise I have nothing to say. Or at least nothing I can formulate into coherent sentences. I try to remember what my day has consisted of and find that anything prior to the last five minutes is a bit of a blur. But it is just lazy really.

At work we have little strips to go on our keyboards to remind us of the shortcut functions and I refuse to have one on mine because I feel the mental exercise of remembering which button does what must be good for the brain. But it might be that I am exercising my little grey cells on this kind of trivia when it could be put to far greater use remembering where I was ten minutes ago and the amusing thing that happened on the way.

I really couldn’t say if anything amusing at all happened ten minutes ago but it is highly unlikely as I think I was sitting here at the computer then not reading my emails. By which I mean that I didn’t have any to read and not that I wasn’t reading the ones I got.

After a somewhat dry year as far as holidays are concerned the horizon is starting to have lots of possibilities stacked up on it. Apart from the week we have got booked in Florence next week which constitutes our 2007 holiday package basically, 2008 holds the exciting possibilities of a week in the Caribbean, a weekend in Spain, a week at the Edinburgh Fringe and a city break in Venice - only ‘possibles’ at the moment but it’s something to think about during those long winter evenings.

I only hope I’ll remember it all!