Seeing (and listening) is believing...(free offer - read on please!)

For those who note the time of posting and get concerned that I am fibbing about the fact that I am sleeping well again, please believe me that I am getting an average of six to seven hours a day now, which suits me just fine and dandy.

I am just operating on the time zone of some far away place or distant planet that has many sunrises and sunsets. I grab a few hours here and there - several times a day/evening. It's working though.

Connie seems to be on the same plane too, and have just had to move the grey fluff ball-shaped angel from the office, before her and her ball-playing fun disrupt the piles of carefully date organised papers on the floor. Organised chaos? Hope you can relate. Freda certainly can!

Not being quite six months old yet, she has yet to learn some valuable life lessons - not least the 'don't bite the hand that feeds you' one. It's more of a nibble than a bite though - sometimes a paw, pad or gentle scratch and it doesn't hurt. It's not always my hand either - nose, chin, fingers, toes - she doesn't discriminate. I don't need an alarm clock at the moment that's for sure!

She is obviously missing her little brother terribly isn't she - though of course I don't tell him that when I visit him at Durtnells. He is not pining too much either, he has made a lot of friends and I think they will be sorry to see him go tomorrow/Wednesday - but I doubt his little presents will be missed too much!

Anyway, now I have finally got my arse in gear and spent a few moments figuring out new cables etc, I have created an online photo album, so that hopefully you will start to see that I need no imagination for writing this stuff - or my scripts. Thanks to my lovely friends, family and people I meet, I just have to listen, watch and put virtual pen to virtual paper. Or take the pics and/or videos (You Tube is next).

Please find at http://www.flickr.com/photos/20447812@N06/ - am sure there is a way of getting a more memorable URL but can't be bothered to sort that out just yet.

So, to the listening. The Clancy & Casey slot is making a welcome return (for us at least) on Radio Leeds tomorrow. Find out more at www.bbc.co.uk/leeds - you can listen again until Wednesday morning at 6am. We're on at 7.50am, in case you didn't read yesterday's (what, you mean you don't have a spare four hours a day to read my idle mind meanderings...?!)

Back to the seeing...

Spent a very enjoyable few hours at Bodyline in Leeds (it's opposite the 'all you can eat' No1 Chinese Buffet, which tickles me enormously!). Thanks to my very good friend Sonia Hough for coming along (she ran the NYC marathon in just under two hours faster than yours truly last year - she's pretty nippy!). Me, Leah, Sally (owner), Linda (nurse and model for the night) and the wonderful Dr Anna were there too.

Sally has a policy of NEVER offering anything to her clients that she hasn't tried herself - and she looks pretty damn good on it too. She will also be back on the joy that is 'the market' soon, so I'll keep you boys posted about that one too! My pleasure Sally!

Some of you may remember my mention of a wondrous thing called mesotherapy (vitamins, minerals, natural acids injected into your skin - anywhere, not just ass and face). It is even more wondrous when combined with dermal fillers - not the bovine scary stuff either. Did you know there are no regulations on this stuff and there are literally 10s of different fillers and botox (Chinatox, Anytox) around? Would you think to ask? Bodyline uses only the stuff with safety data attached and Sally has scoured the country looking for the right person to deliver this - across her three clinics in Crosby (Liverpool), Stockport and now Leeds.

She's found her in the delightful Dr Anna (pic on flickr - she's married though, sorry!). Wonderfully Polish with a French dermatologist Mum, her English is better than most, probably mine included at the moment (the power of coherent speech is eluding me on a regular basis at the moment).

Radio Leeds may well be worth a listen tomorrow, though, like at the calendar launch I may have to do notes for a change again. Otherwise I will probably forget to mention something really important! Thank God Benedict Phillips won't be around to threaten to steal them this time. He's such a gem and a very good friend! Artists, don't you just love 'em - www.thebenedict.net - his 'Fake ID' birthday party on the 1st may well be a good evening I think!

Anway, I won't bang on about Anna's background, suffice to say it's top notch.

The most exciting part for you guys is that Sally needs a demo model for a training session on December 4th in Leeds - during the day, the time escapes me at the moment.

THIS IS AN OFFER TO HAVE IN THE REGION OF £400 WORTH OF SAFE AND EFFECTIVE NON-INVASIVE COSMETIC TREATMENTS ON YOUR VISAGE GUYS. Offers like this don't grow on trees!

Having seen the immediate results on lovely Nurse Linda this evening (and seen how Emla cream stops the pain of the needles)I can highly recommend. It has to be on your face and you have to be someone that will get some results that you can talk about - no photos in the paper of you though, that's just for shame-free zones like me. Without being too indelicate perhaps my friends in their twenties need not apply...!

Of course, you could also wait until after Friday when I've had my first session to learn more if you're still a bit unsure. I love Dr Anna even more given she has said that it will only take four - not eight - sessions to get me back in lap/pole-dancing shape (the kind I had before I discovered fags, booze and pizza). Things are never as bad as you see in the mirror really are they?

Incidentally, Sally told us a story of a famous party she held at her fab property in Glossop a little while ago - I keep suggesting me going over for tea, not just meetings, I think I need to be a bit more direct - where she had two poles (now she just has one in Dr Anna - sorry, couldn't give that one away!) installed for the evening. Two lovely girls were the entertainment (not too scantily-clad, Sally's a classy, stylish girl after all) and many of the men became incredible bores as they firmly rooted themselves to the floor in full view, not wanting to join in with any conversations in case they lost their place!

In a bar in Shoreditch - the name escapes me at the moment again - there is a wonderful sign on the back of the toilet door in the ladies. "Please excuse our mirror, we are having some work done and it should be back to normal soon. P.s. You look fabulous by the way!" Love it!

I also love 'I'm a Celebrity' and haven't quite managed to watch it all yet - doubt I will now, I nodded off for a few hours earlier whilst watching on V+. I have yet to pick a favourite, but reckon it's one of the better line-ups!

Many of you will relate to being in groups with clashing Alpha Females and some will even have personal experience of me in work-related groups (since Uni really) and thanking their lucky stars that me and my fellow Alphas have seen eye-to-eye, on the important stuff at least. They know who they are and it may be a longish list but for those who don't...in no particular date order...Lou 'Tonko' Tonkinson, Liza Hoeksma, Julia Mulligan, Erica Deeman, Emma Bearman (and all the Angels), Kate Craddock (nee Pope), Rachel Chapman, Karen 'Krazy' Heras-Kelly. Love you all girlies - a lot!

Also love love loving Ant & Dec again (I spotted the talents of a Mr Declan Donnelly years ago, even though he's way too 'wee' for me really, in the delight that was Byker Grove as one half of PJ & Duncan). Laugh out loud stuff again for me, was it for you? The 'talking to Malcolm Maclaren through the hotel door' skit was just pure quality I think. I have my opinions about his behaviours but as I hope there are a few anarchists amongst those of you reading (not least Boff from the Chumbas!) I shall keep those to myself for a change!

Incidentally, again, I once met the lovely 'Spuggy' from Byker Grove in River Island in Sunderland on one of my many pilgrimages to Macam-land. It was at the time she was on the telly too, so a few years ago. Lovely, friendly girl I seem to recall. Champion!

So, seeing is believing for me. Hope it is for you - and you bloody well listen to the radio tomorrow morning! Please.

VERY exciting meeting re 'The train now departing...' tomorrow too. Hope I will have some news about that very soon. It's my short film and had a different title before. Yet again, eventually, second opinions are welcomed and I do admit when I'm wrong. Albeit through gritted teeth!

Night night for now

Clancy xxxx