Tuesday

The heatwave finally breaks today and I can actually sit comfortably at work and get on with whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing. The office is incredibly quiet what with all the bosses away in New York for a book fair - and while in some cases this would let us slack off a little bit, it's actually a relief from all their half-baked nonsense ideas and a chance to catch up with the tedious but inescapable admin stuff that has been badly neglected lately.

Back at home later, I start making dinner for K - she's off to Barcelona tomorrow so I thought I should make it a treat, by crafting some home-made spicy potato wedges and getting the griddle out to do some tasty burgers and onions. OK, so it's not the classiest or most complex meal in the world - but it turns out to be bloody tasty and I'm rather proud of myself.

Later on we watch the fourth episode of Luther, which is sticking with the formula I described last week - in that it's very well done for a British cop drama and Idris Elba is brilliant, but occasionally strays into far-fetched territory and doesn't seem to have the balls to let go of the viewer's hand in the same way something like The Wire does. Tonight's storyline is a disturbing one though, and not in a nutty-vampire-with-a-frozen-woman-on-a-boat way like last week.