Friday Jan 27th- day 21

Day 21! This must feel like torture for you, like being in the Big Brother house. I understand that this latest "celebrity" BB has been grim viewing. I am glad to be away from it all, because much as I like to think myself above it all, I often end up getting sucked into it. I was glued to the screen last year and was delighted when Bez of Happy Mondays fame bagged the cash. His promise to spend the winnings on "pimpin up me ride" are a lesson to us all in sensible financial management. Talking of which, I hear there has been a multi-mega-super-duper-with-knobs-on ROLLOVER in the National Lootery (that was an honest typo!) and everyone is snapping up tickets for the one handred meellion jackpot. All I will say is, remember who your friends are. And I am writing this blog specifically for you, my best and dearest friend. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE, you luck jackpot winner you!

I meet another member of staff today called Crispin. Disappointingly, there are no offers of gum this time (he is an English guy). I like him, although I am disappointed that he has grown a Noel Edmonds-esque beard. My Dad once had a pee next to Noel Edmonds at a motorway service station- FACT! Anyway, Crispin is an interesting chap,and he was very generous with his time and knowledge. Actually, he's one of those guys who is a bit frightening in the amount he knows about his subject. As we were talking, he kept leaping up and grabbing down a book to show me a study, or digging out papers from box files. I wonder if I will ever know that much stuff? Probably not.