I can’t see very well – which is a big problem for a designer – but luckily it’s only temporary and will be cured after a man in a white coat has stuck a needle in my eye. I’d rather he put me in a straight jacket and loaded me into the back of a white van. It would hurt less and feel more sane than our office.

And of course, the office is scheduled for demolition, so the white van option looks pretty good right now! However, the Town Hall and their puppet property developers have reckoned without Matmi’s magic. We’ve put together a “Demolition Macclesfield” website at http://www.demolitionmacclesfield.co.uk/ where anyone can vote for local properties to be saved or destroyed, and it got a page 3 spread in our local paper on Wednesday. They’ve dubbed me the “demolition man” and if you type that into Google News, I’m there at No.4 in the global scheme of things. I don’t think the Town Hall knows what’s hit them – let’s hope it stays that way.

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This week ended on a high! I attended the second annual Green Awards at the beautiful Guildhall in London (www.greenawards.co.uk) in the hope that our runaway Comic Relief viral may finally get the recognition it deserves. Although we were short listed, we didn’t win this time, but I met some really great people and made even more contacts – and I think I was the only one to leave on a green form of transport. I hailed a two-seater rickshaw cyclist who pedalled me 6 miles across a mild, quiet and rather lovely London night. There wasn’t a white van in sight – but that could change anytime.

Enjoy. Jeff.