Contact Philippa Perry on Twitter to say thanks and offer self up as case study
Book Chinese in the village to treat parents to Sunday dinner
Text Mum to reassure her chopsticks are not compulsory (though either way, Jacob will show her how to use them)
Buy litter for Alan
Fix mortgage rate
Descale kettle
Call Rose about career bombshell before she does anything hasty
I sit at my desk ploughing through emails, but I still can’t really get over what transpired during the course of last night. Aswell as the good news about her lung scan, Rose made another announcement: that she isn’t coming back to work in August. In fact, she isn’t coming back altogether.
The money they had set aside for a new extension will instead be used to fund her way through college. At 48 years old, my best friend is having a career change and plans to retrain as a teacher. She repeated something I’ve heard her say a few times since I’ve known her. That she felt so unbelievably lucky all those years ago when she got that trainee position at the BBC that she never actually stopped to question whether it was what she really wanted to do. She’s loved broadcasting and has had a tremendous career at Motionmax+. But teaching – at a secondary school or an FE college ideally – remains an itch that she has never scratched. So that’s exactly what she plans to do.
I take a sip of my tea and lower it to my desk. I click on my to-do list and cross out the last item. Then I return to my emails.
Hi Lisa,
As promised, I’m delighted to attach the completed sizzle reel forMy Teenage Bombsite. Enjoy!
Jake
The short promotional video helps people understand our concept and gives them a taste of the main concepts, characters and locations audiences will expect to see, all set to the punchy music that’s been created specifically for the show. I click on the link, sit back and watch. It is less than a minute long, but that’s more than enough to make a smile spread across my face. I know you can never guarantee a hit, that in the past I’ve loved the odd show that’s bombed and hated others that have gone on to unfathomable success.
But I’m calling this now.
It’s going to be huge. I close the file, create a link and compose an email.
