I’m feeling great today. I’ve had a wonderful weekend in Bournemouth watching Sigur Ross, I’ve been at ITV for the past two weeks and this morning, and Christine arrives on Thursday. Knowing Christine she’ll have a high packed itinerary of things she’d like to do so we’ll be busy, especially with going to Paris. On the other hand I’ll be totally broke by the end of it all but that’s life. I’m sure the credit card in my already bulging wallet will help take the strain. 

Reading National Geographic today (which my sister very kindly bought me a subscription to last year) and I came across this stunning picture. Isn’t it just inspiring? That such a huge, wonderful and docile creature can be hunted to near extinction yet here, it simply circles with intrigue and interest is surely amazing. 

From National Geographic

I must admit that every time I now see a picture with a diver in, or go near any kind of beach I start to become green with envy. Diving’s a funny thing, it really gets in your blood and now I’ve been once I just can’t wait to go again.

It was with interest that I picked up a copy of the television circular “Broadcast” and read a very interesting couple of articles. One was about the producer of Spring/Autumn watch, the other about a team of experts and presenters going out to film the BBC’s newest Earth Epic – Oceans. It made me realise just how comfortable I’d become and that I needed to step up my game. The articles were simply brilliant, incredible stories about incredible people doing incredible TV. Here I am, sitting quite happily at “This Morning” (not that there’s anything at all wrong with that) and all around me people are making groundbreaking television, television that is the reason that I wanted to join this career path. Taking things for granted is a funny thing, no matter how amazing something may be, how much we are blown away by its greatness initially, eventually, with time it fades. I love working on This Morning, it’s a great show with great people but falling into place has made me, I must admit, become comfortable with the way things are when really I shouldn’t be. I’m a freelancer and I’m currently in an area that I want to move on from. I know we should take baby steps but we should always remember to keep the dream alive and keep on pushing.

Glad you're working with some great people on 'This Morning'.

Fantastic photo. He's obviously never heard of Jonah or Gepetto! Very near me is St Abbs which is a major UK diving place: fantastic wildlife and many, many wrecks (no, not me! - cheeky)