Hilary Seabrook - writer, podcaster, musician

Spent a productive couple of hours finishing off the research and writing of a new blog for Sosactive, an American site . Quite proud of how it turned out.

I don't often have bad days, but today was one of them, with a couple of good highs. It felt live a never-ending onslaught of deadlines moving while I ran after them, left, right and centre. It was all metaphorical and I was actually quite productive, but it was frustrating at times. The first high-point of the day was falafel for lunch, with all the trimmings. The low-point was the sad end of someone anonymous (to me, if not to their family and friends) under a train in Southgate. Kings Cross rapidly descended into chaos, with a tinge of sadnes - no-one likes to complain when the cause is a tragedy for probably several people, not least of whom is the train driver involved. A delightful couple of hours at The Radcliffe Arms in Hitchin, meeting up with a bunch of twitter-mates. Lovely. Then an hour's drive to Milton Keynes to collect Florence at midnight and an hour's drive home. It's been a long day.

I love this image. The artist is Sarah Graham , who lives in Hitchin. Just interviewed her, because this is the front cover image for Kaiser Chiefs' new album, out in June. I just think it's beautiful.

Email received from a source who had given me a lead for a story which became the front cover and centre spread of the most recent Courier newspaper. He said: "Got my Courier yesterday - WOW! Brilliant. Many thanks." Makes it all worthwhile. (Which is one of the main reasons I left teaching - you rarely get thanks and often get unthinking, unhelpful, non-constructive criticism)

To the Indulge Restaurant at Hitchin College for some networking with The Best of Hitchin. Met up with some old friends and made some new contacts. It's good to stay in touch with local businesses and hear what other people are doing.

It is a joy to be once more working with an old client - history going back more than 20 years. She's a lovely person, snowed under and I hope that I'm helping keep the decks clear. I've been working on a piece about fragrances and food ingredients in Turkey and now creating a newsletter for a technical team in Paris. Global is good!

A positive three hours spent helping out at the Sport Relief mile at Hitchin Boys' School. Shattered now and I didn't even run!