Saturday April 9
My first
6 Music Chart show. It flew by. Quite bracing! Rented
Inside I'm Dancing on DVD. Very good.
James McAvoy (out of
Shameless ) as the classic cinematic livewire who's paralysed from the neck down, spreading life and hope into the institutionalised existence of muscular dystrophy sufferer Steven Robertson (who, shamefully, doesn't feature much in the trailers). It's a standard buddy movie except in motorised wheelchairs. I had something in my eye by the end.
Sunday April 10
My first Sunday afternoon show. It went by nice and slowly, giving me loads of time to enjoy it. Plenty of emails, and many from new names, which is nice. Oddly, having spent years catching the 19.32 train back to
Redhill every night after my weekday show, it turns out that the trains are busier at weekends. All those people shopping and going to
museums! The 17.32 was packed. Get used to it.
Monday April 11
Since this is the first week of my new radio life, I was determined to treat today as the new Saturday. Success. We drove into Kingston. No queue at the car park. Only two other people in the cinema. Saw
The Assassination of Richard Nixon and, although it was downbeat beyond belief and seemed designed to rub
Sean Penn's character's nose in it at every turn, I loved it. It was set in 1974 but could have been made in that year too.
Ate a hearty late lunch (no queue to get in!) at
Carluccio's and accidentally invented the Meat Snakebite. My wife gave me part of her rib eye steak while I was still working my way through the lamb. Et voila! Snakebite! It was weird eating two meats at the same time. The steak made the lamb taste boring, which of course, it is not. Watched a couple of episodes of
Seinfeld on DVD when we got home, just to prove it was a Saturday. Fell asleep during one. Bingo! My new life has started! Didn't even turn on my mobile. Kerry met her birth mother on
ER .
