I've been a bit out of sorts recently - the Muse has packed her bags, tossed her head and matched out of the building without so much as a backward glance. I couldn't think of anything to put on paper. I tentatively suggested that Claire might like to write a guest column, hovering around her desk in an encouraging manner but to no avail. To be fair she was in the middle of dealing with about 50...

Actually last week I was whisked off by the husband to Frenchman's Creek. I had been suffering from anxiety dreams again, you know the ones. I would find myself standing up before a packed lecture theatre pontificating about the exhibtion when I would suddenly look down and discover that I had forgotten to get dressed that morning. Yes I was actually stark naked in front of hundres of people -...

We've had a few enquiries recently regarding Project Linus and its absence in the exhibition. I first heard about Project Linus in 2003, when I lived on the Isle of Wight. The headline 'Blankets of Love for Sick Children' was followed by a news report detailing how volunteers had presented a pile of quilts to St Mary's Hospital children's ward and neo-natal...

It has been a bit like living in Narnia recently. After all the excitement of last week's PV, the constant round of press interviews and VIP tours I should really have taken myself off to a quiet room to recuperate. But of course I couldn't resist coming in on Saturday morning, to be there when the doors opened for the first time to the public. As I walked to the V&A I was...