Diary – 21 October 2005

At home I work in a cupboard under the stairs just to keep me grounded, so you won’t hear me talking about my ‘studio’ — unlike some cartoonists I could name. My cupboard has in it, apart from old clothes, a cat litter tray and a collection of hundreds of jazz CDs. Do I put them back in their cases when I’ve finished playing them? I do not; anyway, I now have an iPod with all my music downloaded on to it. Fancy that! All those wonderful CDs on a machine the size of a packet of five Woodbines. Now I can have music wherever I go, so don’t even try and speak to me. I can’t hear you. In fact I have caught up with the rest of you with plugs in your ears, but I still haven’t got a mobile phone and so I’m not texting this diary from anywhere exotic.