I spent today at the TV station again, but this time for a very different reason. I brought Bob the Library Bear along too, of course. He’s reassuringly cuddlesome.

I dislike having my hair styled but Katie distracted me with her favourite shows (she loves “Dancing with the Stars”), her son’s brilliance in school (he’s six but he will be a future world leader), and the ongoing saga of her elderly aunt’s quest to run a Tidy Towns committee. She could keep the nation entertained all by herself.

Then I visited the wardrobe department. It’s a massive warehouse space with a small fitting area. I’ve avoided it until now because Richard wants me to be the “normal me” in my own clothes for recordings of Storyteller and Bear. For the last series he got me tw...

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