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I don’t think I have ever seen a dog in a suitcase. Until now! This lazy lookin’ dog was in a shop at Greenwich Market. I could have tried to pick the case up and take him home, but he looks like he would be pretty heavy.

I’ve been aware of Simon Miller Jeans for a while now, ever since I tried to see how my site was doing in Google rankings (not very well unfortunately). Anyways, they are a premium line of very nice jeans from California.

I saw them a couple of weeks ago while perusing the mens’ section in Selfridges. They are quite literally, jeans with my name on them. Unfortunately the price tag is way out of my league – this pair was £260! Now I like my jeans, and I don’t mind paying £100 for a pair of Nudies, but this was a bit too steep for me, even given the name connection (and Miller’s even spelt correctly!). Maybe one day I’ll get to own a pair! Like erm when my salary goes up by like 300% or something.

So I haven’t been bloggin’ for what seems like ages! Truth to be told I’ve been up to my eyes really with travelling to and back from London – I’ve been there about four times in the last five weeks. Brilliant for the frequent flyer miles, but it’s left me feeling a bit disorganised and all over the place. Also, we start filming for my new series in two weeks’ time, which seems to have come round very quickly. I’ve been a bit distracted from that as well – last week for example I was interviewing for Assistant Producers for three days, and in London one day, leaving me only one day in the office.

Anyways, I’m back now so will try and catch up on what I’ve been doing in the last couple of weeks.

Me and my little sis in Houston, around 1980. You can bet if we were looking like friends in this, we were probably beating crap out of each other by the time we got around the corner.

Check the dude in the blue suit!

Whilst in London, I struck a deal with my little sis. I would go and see the movie of her choice on the Friday night if we saw a movie of my choice on the Sunday night. So that explains why on Friday I found myself watching the latest Zac Efron film, 17 Again.

It’s a bit like a male version of Freaky Friday. Middle aged man finds out one day that he has become 17 again, and at school with his son and daughter. Actually, I quite enjoyed it, yeah there were a couple of cheesy moments, but if you fancy going to see a relatively entertaining film that you don’t have to think about, it’s probably a good choice.

Lots of Zac fans were in the cinema, but what was weird was four people sitting beside me were eating Chinese food in the cinema. 1. How did they manage to get it in, and 2. How come it didn’t smell? No idea.

The Sunday film (my choice) was Let the Right One In. It’s a film I’ve wanted to see for ages, and it didn’t disappoint. It’s about two Swedish kids in the 70s, one of whom is a vampire. It’s very different from your normal vampire movie – there’s not much blood and gore, and the film also concentrates on the relationship between the young boy and girl.

It was a bit long to be honest, and the cinematography wasn’t as stunning as I’d expect given the bleak Swedish setting, but I would watch it again, and will probably buy the DVD. Once the version with the proper subtitles has been released (it’s been causing a bit of a storm Stateside).

Last weekend I was in London to see the family. My flight didn’t get in until 10.15pm on Thursday night, so I was getting the tube back to Canary Wharf with some rather drunk people. On passing through the tube station at Canary Wharf, I saw this cool dude busking with some neon see through electric guitar (which you can just about see in the pic).

His sounds were pretty neat, but what was annoying me (and probably him no doubt) was the drunken banking dude, standing about 1 inch away from him, nodding in time to the ‘beat’. He was there for a good five minutes while I watched. What a prat! Not cool.

Can someone please tell me what this means. I am seeing it everywhere, and I feel like I’m not in some secret club because I don’t know what it stands for. Thanks.

This is an advert produced by the Scottish Government to publicise Homecoming Scotland. It does actually make me want to go back home! Hooray for Scotland!

Check this! McDonald’s has done some tinkering with the Big Mac, and now offers it in a brown bun (or pain complet) as well as the usual white one, and no it’s not an April Fool!

I think this is a really interesting move by McD’s – showing that they’re not afraid to try and make existing products more healthy. Also, it’s a permanent addition and option on the menu.

Unfortunately this is exclusive to France, so I’ll have to wait until I’m over there next time to try it. I’m intrigued though!

You can read more about it on the  McDonald’s France website.

It’s been pretty hectic recently with me, which is why I haven’t been posting that muc h. Also I haven’t found that much intersting stuff going on recently out on the ole’ World Wide Web.

Anyways, it’s been hectic as I prepared for the launch of my new series, which I’ll be working on from now until the end of August. It’s the return of Northern Exposure, which was presented last year by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and his wife Jackie. It did well for us ratings wise, so it was re-commissioned, and this year we’ve got two new presenters – Gary Lineker (Match of the Day presenter and ex England internationalist) and his fiancee, Danielle Bux (soon to be appearing in Hell’s Kitchen).

Northern Exposure is about introducing two celebs to Northern Ireland and getting them to visit places suggested by members of the public. The aim is really to get viewers to go out at the weekend and discover someplace new. So the website is open for suggestions (suggest something here!) and the production team have started researching their own locations.

Seven weeks til we start fimling – I’m sure that will go very, very quickly!