Yesterday finished once again with a very interesting television night. I saw Jude Law at the age of 9 in The Pocket Money Show, Ewan McGregor blowing the French Horn in the mid eighties and Ali G before he was Ali G. I tried to read The Cutting Room (Louise Welsh) in the meantime but then 'house' started. A show on five with Hugh Laurie as a doctor. He's the head of a diagnostics department and teaching to emergency doctors to be. I used to be a hypochondriac, so needless to say I absolutely enjoyed guessing along what diseases the symptoms related to!

My stay in Liverpool is coming to an end and I don't mind really. Last Sunday I visited Manchester, which actually seemed much more alive than Liverpool. Since my guide was gay, I was taken to homewear shops and the gay village. A guy my father's age passed us by with his fly open. No underwear, just an open pair of jeans and a willie. That wouldn't have been a problem if my guide hadn't felt the urge to take the matter up with the passenger in question. Long discussion, checking each other out and then deciding not to go for it because you're out with a customer and still need to drive her back to her hotel in Liverpool. My account manager is great but he hasn't come out of the closet yet. Which I find really strange, because I haven't been avoiding the issue and we've been out eating and drinking quite a lot.

To make up for all that eating and drinking (Russian, Spanish, Italian but nothing traditionally English except breakfast in the hotel - a pity, I like pies and patries) I went to the gym quite a lot this week. My jeans is tighter than this time last week though. Carbohydrates + work out = killer thighs. Great.

So did I buy any audio books last week? Yes I did. I went to Waterstones and bought Atonement (Ian McShaw), An Equal Music (Vikram Seth) and 7 Detective Stories (Various authors). Since I have no cd-player at hand, I bought some paper books to get me through the week. I've finished The Oxford Murders by Guillermo Martinez which proved to be a really good mix of detective and maths. The Cutting Room is promising as well, but I haven't gotten further than page 30. I bought Philip Roth's Plot against America which will be someone's birthday present. And then there is Paul Auster's Oracle Night, which I bought because I think Matti recommended his writing.