I was down to collect money for Children in Need from 7-9am this morning, before work. So I dutifully went to bed early (although in comparison to the times I've been to bed this week, late) and set my alarm for 5.45am to give me plenty of time to drag myself out of bed. I woke up at 6.10am. My travel alarm clock decided, for reasons best known to itself, not to bother going off. I rushed about, managed half of breakfast, discovered e-mails I needed to reply to, and made it into work with five minutes to spare.

At this point, despite the cold and the sun not having come up yet (although it was quite light by this point), I was warm. I was collecting from cars waiting at the crossroads. The road they were coming down from had been shut for three days this week - and the people doing it didn't feel the need to remove the diversion sign. There were temporary traffic lights on, and lots of signs in the road. Which collectively meant I had very few cars and when I ventured into the road, had to keep one eye on the traffic coming the other way in case I got run over. This was not helped by cars parking on the other side of the road and the cold setting in about 8.15am.

The time did go quite quickly in the end, but it wasn't as much fun as last year when there were loads of cars. When I got to work, I had second breakfast (pie from the Bakers Oven downstairs) and a hot chocolate. And eventually managed to be warm enough to take my coat off at 11.15am.

So now I'm quite tired. Or was until I ate, now I've woken up a bit. I can't have much of a lie-in tomorrow because I'm going to the ZZ9 AGM, followed by spending the night in Guildford. And I haven't even thought about the number of things I have to get done this weekend. Possibly because my brain's not quite working just at the moment.

And in a discussion of weather and accents today, the people in my office told me I say Dorset in a dorset accent, apparently. I've nearly caught up on my viewing - I just have Have I Got News For You from three weeks ago left, which I think I might give up on somehow.

Need sleep...

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