Tonight we were at the recording of Charlie Brooker’s new TV show, You Have Been Watching. It was shot in a dodgy studio, over in Hammersmith, where they use to record TFI Friday. Jamelia, Ruthus Hound & Richard Herring were the guests. It was very funny, apart from having to sit right at the front, on uncomfortable seats for 4 hours. They made fun of Tony for looking like Hitler… which he doesn’t.

On Saturday, we went to Plan 9 and Tom had a 4th of July hot dog. We’re planning to have a huge vegetarian BBQ next week, if the weather’s nice.

The past week has been so hot, that it’s been hard to get much work done, so I’ve been hanging out with the various neighbours and watching Wimbeldon – I didn’t realize how much I liked tennis. We’ve also been having girly nights in with Raven and Emma. This week we watched Wild Child and Romy & Michelle’s High School Reunion (I’d forgotten how awesome that film is.) Alice Dellal has been recording a shouting song next door, which seems to involve running back and forth to the car to listen to the song on the stereo very loudly. She told Tom that we have a lovely place.

On the subject of interior design, I was sent a very cool book called New London Style, which features various interesting houses around the city. Also, if you’re a fan of roller derby, we have tickets for Roll Britannia up for grabs.

Yesterday, Clare was in town so we met her in Green Park for a picnic. She has such a fun busy life being a journalist / extra in movies.

In the evening we went to see the Now Show at BBC Broadcasting House. It’s not my favorite radio show, but it does help me fall asleep, so half way through I started getting very drowsy. It was all a bit middle class and not that funny.

When we got back, we sat out with the neighbours and then discovered that Michael Jackson had died. We had a little toast for him, listened to Thriller and then Dan made me pasta, which was very yummy.

I wrote a little guide to turning your front room in to a festival for DiS, so if you’re not at Glastonbury (like most of our neighbours, who are playing at it) you can still pretend you are.

I bought some new shoes in the sale and they arrived today. I ♥ red shoes!

A bunch of people on CO+K asked me to be one of the Crafty Superstars a while back, so I crafted up 5 projects especially and we’ll be launching one each day this week.

The first project was a how-to for sewing a Gothic Lolita Cuff and it marks my third hundred project on the site. That’s a lot of crafting!

I’ve also been doing lots of writing recently. Not only did we just finish the new Snippets but I had interviews with the creator of Irregular Choice and Polly Scattergood today for the next issue. I’ve also just finished “how to enhance your Glastonbury-watching-sofa-experience” for Drowned In Sound, which was fun to write.

We totally failed at seeing 8 out of 10 cats last night, as they’d changed the start time and we didn’t realize, but they’ve put us down as priority for next week. We’d made a packed with Tony to go to Nando’s, because everyone says that it’s good, so we went for dinner. It’s a lot like a glorified take-out joint, a la Chicken Cottage or one of the dodgy fried chicken restaurants you see all over London. You go up to order your own food and there’s a lot of queuing involved. It’s obviously not a very good place for vegetarians. Debra Barr, from The Apprentice was there, being quite mouthy like on the show. When she left, someone shouted “you’re fired!” at her – I bet that doesn’t get old! Afterwards, more fun was to be had at the Hawley Arms.

I wore my new Viv Westwood, Venus top, that Tom got me. I think it looks like something Sailor Girl would wear and I love it to bits.

Tom bumped in to Henry (from The Inbetweener ) again today. Last time we saw him he went on of a tour of our mews, and today he’d just got back from furniture shopping at Ikea. He called us his Mews muse. Tom met another one of our neighbours, who was Freddie Mercury’s costume designer (she made his famous yellow jacket) and now designs for TV shows and movies. She said that Freddie Mercury and David Bowie had visited the mews in the 80’s, so I’ve been trying to imagine them walking up and down our cobbled street.

We had tickets for 8 Out Of 10 Cat’s at BBC television centre last night. Lynsey came along too. She always brings yummy treats and last night she brought chocolate truffles that had a cat in London on the box. We had priority tickets, which meant we had to sit in a section of seats directly in front of the cameras, just before the stage. Our bags and jackets were taken off us and we were told we “would be seen on TV”, eep. Jeremy Clarkson, David Walliams, James from The Apprentice and Holly Walsh (?) were the guests.

Afterwards, I wanted to hug Jimmy Carr but he disappeared. James, from The Apprentice, complimented Tom on his new Vivienne Westwood top and said “it wouldn’t suit me though”.

Aafterwards we had dinner at Wahaca. It’s suppose to be Mexican Market Eating and we ordered tasty quesadilla’s, super spicy tacos, nachos, nuts, churros and a lime tequila sorbet, which came with a very babyish looking spoon.

I had an awesome time at the BBC yesterday.

In the morning we went for breakfast at Fifteen and then my Mum and I went to see an exhibition of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe photography. Tom applied for tickets for a new show called As Seen On TV, so we headed along to Television Centre to sit in the audience. 

There was a Tardis parked outside. It was lit up when we left and you could go inside. 

My Dad attempted to push over a Dalek (I have only just noticed the “do not press” button and now I wish I had pushed it).

It was surreal sitting in the studio. As Seen On TV is a comedy panel show, hosted by Steve Jones, with Fern Britton and Jason Manford as team captains.

The ceiling was covered in hundreds of lights and monitors.

We got to stay for two shows (including the last of the series), featuring such stars as Eamon Holmes, Dom Jolly, Cobra from Gladiators and the Blue Peter turtle. I want to go along to shows everyday and then we wont need our TV.