Freshly ground...

First coffee on the go at 7.05. Any earlier seems hardcore. I still might be all done on caffeine by 8.30 but the first one feels pretty good so far. Papers, washing, books, post, random headphones and candles all cluttering up the table but it's the coffee that is the centre of my attention. I never drank coffee or tea until I was doing the early show for Radio 1 (sitting in for Adrian John) but there was a coffee machine that ground its own beans outside the studio. The need for something warm to lubricate the throat was stronger than my dislike for hot drinks. And slowly the addiction began. You had to read your own headlines on that show so you didn't want to sound weedy! I am a fan of newsreaders. Here's to them all.

Radio 2 Bookclub today with Anna McPartlin's The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes. Anna's currently writing for Holby City and used to be a stand-up comedian but her new novel centres around a sprawling Irish family and particularly Mia 'Rabbit' Hayes. She is 40 but we join the book as she is admitted to a hospice and we follow her as she relives her youth. There's a chapter here for you to have a look at before tonight.

(And Chris says we've been doing this for 5 years! As her said, seems like 5 minutes. Still the best show to do-thanks for being in the vanguard. Or the guard's van. Whatever).

And as BBC2 launches a Horizon special 'What's The Right Diet For You?' we'll do DIET oldies please and doubtless get very hungry in the process.

One more coffee before then...