Simon on gardening, cameras and early starts

With half term over, together with a nasty sick bug that brought down the whole family, it’s nice to be back into the early morning routine! But having turned the clocks back, those early five o’clock starts do seem awfully dark and lonely.

It’s been nice to work with Kathy on a regular basis and have a bit of a catch up before The Morning Show starts. But I think my unshaven, un-showered, pre-show appearance has taken her aback a bit!

My Gardening Gifts show

Apart from The Morning Show, I've been looking forward to my Gardening Gifts for Christmas show on Saturday 15th November at 9am. Gardening is something I love and, having recently dug up almost all my plants and taken Richard Jackson’s advice, I'm hoping for amazing things in 2009! 

Exciting computer Today's Special Value coming up

On that Saturday we've also got a very interesting HP computer Today's Special Value, which I'm fascinated by. I'm looking forward to finding out about it from Danny Keeie, our special guest from HP. I haven’t seen a sample yet as it's very new, but having watched a video demonstration of it, it’s like having a computer screen that behaves like a giant iPod… very cool!

Shopping for a new camera

I need to buy a new compact digital camera. Even though we talk to guests about that sort of thing all the time, when it comes around to actually buying a camera there seem to be so many to choose from and so many questions to ask. Luckily, I'll be able to corner our guests at some stage over the next few weeks and get some answers.

I need a new camera for lots of reasons, but more of that later.

Have a good weekend,

Simon x