There's a fantastic panorama picture in the Docklands Museum, from the viewpoint of Tower Bridge – but it was painted before Tower Bridge existed. So they think it must have been done from a hot air balloon. Artists have it easy these days, with their fertile imaginations… Rembrandt had a devil of a job negotiating his way through the space-time continuum to paint “The Raising Of Lazarus”, for example.

I've sponsored someone in this office to abseil down a building in Aldgate for Cancer Research. But she has to collect the money before she completes the task. I've not come across this before. What if she chickens out? Do I get my fiver back? What I'm actually sponsoring her for is “fully intending to abseil down a building in Aldgate”. But that should have been made clear at the point I signed the form. Oh, OK, I'll give her the money. Despite the Evening Standard claiming in 3-inch high letters yesterday that a cure for cancer had been found. I didn't bother buying it… I thought I'd wait to see the less hysterical version on page 8 of a proper newspaper today.