Your idea of fun? Trekking across a glacial archipelago!

This is the more benign sight that awaits a team of intrepid students and teachers from a local school - who are off to the Svalbard Archipelago to hike across a glacier in sub-zero temperatures. The other sight could well be a terrifying polar bear! Can you believe the group (from Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow) spending 15 days in the Arctic because it's fun. I have no doubt they'll have a mind-enhacing time. But I don't fancy a holiday that requires training in how to shoot a polar bear (as a last resort, you understand!), and how to go to the bathroom without getting frostbite in delicate places.

Nice to hear, on today's programme, from Lee Peck, who used to be on "Game For A Laugh" back in the 80s. (We were talking about the arrival on our TV screens this evening of a woman called "The Fairy Jobmother" - Channel Four, I think. She's apparently going to whizz into the homes of families who have lost their jobs, or where no-one has ever had a job, and help them help themselves.)

Lee said he first heard he was losing his job when someone at a cocktail party mentioned they'd heard that the TV show was going to be axed. He said it was a huge blow. His wife at the time was pregnant. So, as well as being a personal and professional disappointment, it was financially scary too. But he used all his contacts, put on a brave face, made himself a list every day of things he was going to do, and got himself a job in advertising within three months. He now runs his own advertising business.