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To the Minerva Theatre at Chichester last night to see Lucy Prebble's new play Enron. Wonderful stuff. It gave a very interesting portrayal of the full story behind the rise and fall of Enron - and made me wonder whether Jeff Skilling and Claudia Roe really did have an affair? The staging was very effective, with the stock market prices on a constant rolling newspanel, and traders doing a dance with spectacular light sabres to represent deregulated energy being moved around. At the notable points in the story, a 'News Report' TV ident came on the backdrop and two female news anchors appeared behind the central table - or at one point sitting on it - to deliver a news bulletin in slick American TV style. The shadow companies created by Enron were shown as Jurassic Park-style 'Raptors' - when Jeff Skilling gave the order to close the companies down, executives moved in to strangle the creatures. I now want to check out her previous play The Sugar Syndrome.

I'd bought my ticket for last night months ago, when I didn't work Tuesdays and had no idea that by the time July rolled round I'd be working full time. So having got home not long before midnight, I had to haul myself from bed at 4.30 this morning - plenty of cups of coffee today... Before the end of the shift Demelza, Mel and I had exhausted the week's workload, so I spent the last hour and a half or so looking up post codes.

My Vodafone bill has come out of my bank account and, hallelujah, the charges for my first 50 text messages had indeed been removed. Dare I hope that's the end of that saga?