I loved today. First up came the news that my hero Lance Armstrong is returning to professional cycling. His story of beating cancer and becoming a sporting legend really inspires me and I am already excited about him competing at next year’s Tour de France. It’ll be good to have him back.

Then I appeared on Henry Kelly’s show on BBC Radio Berkshire, plugging Help! I’m Turning Into My Dad. I loved watching Henry on Going For Gold in my student days and he was really lovely in person, as was everyone in his team. He had me in stitches off-air and the interview worked really well. Then Chris and I had a beautiful lunch in Eton. We’re trying out venues for our forthcoming nuptials.

In the afternoon one of my long-held ambitions was finally fulfilled when I had a meeting at the mighty Random House publishers. The atmosphere of the place was just as I hoped it would be: a strikingly heady blend of creative editorial types and dynamic money men in suits. It was a good reminder of how much money can be made in publishing, which was a great shot in the arm to me. More importantly, the meeting itself went really well.

To top off a great day, Arena magazine has done a nice review of Not In My Name, concluding “at their entertaining best, they skewer the worst sort of leftist poseurs”. Too right!