Not too many things are more important to me than the health and well-being of my friends and tonight, I’m trying to make one of the best slow down a bit and enjoy her weekend.

Part of me is very angry that she was up at 4am working on a report that HAD to be there by 9am CET, despite that she’d been working on it till 10pm last night. When I started work at 8.30am – she’d already been at it for four and a half hours.

She has worked like a dog all day and tonight, just as we were about to go out for the evening one of her American clients demanded something that meant she’d have to work until 9pm so I had to cancel our supper date. During all of this, she’d also had a tragic email from a friend who broke the news that a young man whose wedding she’d been to in the summer and looked as though he had his whole world ahead of him had committed suicide yesterday.

Anyway, I decided a good dose of ‘comfort’ was what my friend needed so she’s been treated to some good Cornish beer, some excellent wine and a meal of nachos and a Tony’s Special…..Tony’s restaurant was a Greek restaurant I used to frequent in York and he did this fabby veggie dish, which I’ve bastardised to make my own version….it’s basically a rich cumin and coriander based vegetable casserole with a bulgar wheat topping and cheese.

Now we’re trying to forget the terrible tragedy of a young man who couldn’t go on but who has left a devastated wife behind and trying to think positive!

Last year, a corporate whore 'done good' and made me know all was not lost for me and I was wishing I could swim naked the year before.