After the meeting yesterday afternoon, we had two hours in the hotel before dinner last night. Obviously, I should have gone for a run or a swim to try and improve the trouser non-fitting situation, but in the end I slept for an hour and woke up in a panic, thinking I was late for dinner. In the end, that brief sleep assured two things: first, that I would feel awful and totally exhausted during the dinner, and second, that at 2am, 3am and 4am, I would be completely unable to sleep again.
At 4.30am, I managed to fall asleep for three hours. This felt like an achievement, but, to be honest, the ten minutes' sleep I just had on the table in the Japanese restaurant felt much more rewarding. No wonder people find me such riveting company.
Today, we've already been for a meeting with a toy company where, with the aid of an inflatable cricket set, I was able to confirm to myself that I'm probably unsuitable for selection to the England cricket squad, being totally unable to handle the not particularly demanding girl-throws from Victoria. Now we have meetings with Christmas tree light companies (I think tiredness can be excused in these meetings, irrespective of the circumstances) and then a remote-control car company. I know I'm male, and therefore I should find the prospect of driving tiny little cars at high speeds around a showroom floor exciting, but to be honest, the best thing about the company is that I think it's a fair distance away and I might be able to manage a few minutes sleep in the taxi.
William and Victoria want to go for a walk now. Well, when I say William AND Victoria, but I think it's just William that wants to go. Victoria looks a bit like me - thinking that it would be great if William would go, so that she can lay down on the seat here and sleep.
I just remembered the fun we had this morning with the "touchable" photo frame. Touchable? Well, it held four photographs and when you touched each photograph, the thing would play a pre-recorded message. So, in the model they had, they had a picture of a family on a beach, and when you touched it, it said something like, "here we are on the beach in California". It might sound an awful product, but the situation was redeemed when, with everyone else distracted, me and Victoria discovered how to re-record the messages. Suffice to say that the next people to receive the product demonstration will have a nice... surprise.
Off now to see if I can sleep whilst walking.
