Delighted to speak to Shaila today who is alive and well despite being in Phuket at the time of the Tsunami. Got back to work and there was an email in my in-basket from her.

Otherwise the commute from Brighton this morning was splendid. Being back at work was fine and not traumatising. There was a photocopy of an article I'd had published in a junk mail magazine on my desk, which despite it being brutalized by their subeditor, was a good omen of something or other.