Trivial Pursuits

Have to admit I'm one of those people who don't watch the soaps, which is just as well as when I recently caught ten minutes of some Australian one in George and Bernie's house, I was almost hooked. Then another time recently there was a bit of drama going on as one surgeon was working on someone's brain, and his ex-partner was dealing with a baby at the other end - riveting . .

This all comes to mind because of a rather worrying development in today's emails. Georgina Jaggs (a name to die for in PR) writes to me personally (can't recall the occasion, but I feel sure I would have remembered) -

Dear Martin,
We are publishing ‘The Reality Television Quiz Book’.
Please see below 100 sample questions from the book.
I was wondering if you would provide a short comment on the book to be printed on the back cover, e.g. ‘A must for any TV fan, etc, etc. The deadline for comments will be the end of September 2009, but the sooner the better.

Eh?! So write the review - without even getting a free book? What's the world coming to . . .



Georgina pictured later this week in Helmand province