Up there with the concepts for “Help Me Anthea, I’m Infested” and “Touch the Truck”. Though not as compelling as getting D-list slebs to shit in a Tupperware box and get Gillian McKeith to guess what they had for breakfast. That was a doozy.

“Oh, Alabama”

My mum returned from my first parents evening to say my teacher thought I lived in my own little world. I remember thinking “but I *like* my own little world”. I’m now 58, and I still do.

I remember when the firm is just started working for in my first job got a fax machine. Only a couple of years earlier I’d have been prevented from using the office photocopier because I wasn’t a member of a print union. We also had a typing pool.

Just got back from holiday. It's fecking miserable outside. Pfft.

I discovered yesterday that not only is Richard Stilgoe still alive, he was given a knighthood. It's been that kind of week.

I remember being addressed by the global HR chief (from the US) after they'd just fired a third of the company: "Our people are our strength!" Really, so who was responsible for hiring the - apparent - deadwood you've just fired, and why are you still here?

Most HR leaders are concerned with control, not empowerment.

Used to be so much better when everyone spent their entire commute with their noses firmly embedded in their newspaper. The broadsheets were especially handy as they made it so much easier to avoid all possible eye contact. Bliss.

Well he could have said. Pfft.