He was looking for a personal flying machine.

Sadly at the end of it, it appears, it's a long way off and when it does come there'll be congestion in the skies just as bad as we get on the roads.

Well that killed that one dead in the water, or has it? Maybe we'll return to that later.

Well we didn't have an outright winner of the Euromillions draw, but we did get a brilliant reasonably local winner.

Well she's only over the A69 in Kendal. 18 years old and working as a waitress in her gap year before going off to University. Well that's saved us a fortune on shelling out for her Student loans. On the subject of which, where are they going to come from if there's no money out there because of the Credit Crunch?!

That's solved it ….abolish Students.

I hope you got the chance to go to The Sunderland Empire with the brilliant "Our House" If you don't know, it's a musical love story told using the songs of the group Madness. It has been in the West End of London winning awards for about 5 years now and you can see why.

It is not unique in the fact that it tells the story of what happens if you take the good path in life or a naughty life meaning that each of the aspects happens one after the other. That meant that the main two male and female characters were on stage more or less permanently in their good gear or their bad gear.

They were so clever in their changes that they had substitutes coming on stage after they had gone off or just before they came back on stage.

Using hats and other stage "magic" you wondered how on earth they did what they did and once you thought you'd spotted it they would do another clever bit of skullduggery which left you wondering "How did he/she do that?" Like when Joe appeared behind the umbrella, if you went to see it.

My favourite dance routine was set in a classroom with wheels on the school desks and people dancing on top of them. Reminded me of the "Kids from Fame". Fantastic show!


So this weekend all the mad and sad of the world will be taking to the streets for The Bupa Great North Run in whatever weather we get.

Wind and rain then. We hope not. It is quite amazing that something which did start as an acorn and has grown into a giant oak forest.

People come from all over Britain and of course the world to see our wonderful home and we should be proud of it. I think over the years we have become a bit blasé and don't think about the impact we are having on these people coming to the area and giving them something to remember.

I'm working most of the weekend at the Fitness Show and Pasta Party at The Metro radio Arena all day Saturday and then at South Shields Metro as 36,000 people come through to go home and their various ways.

That is the moment that if we all had a personal flying machine it would be a bit of a problem with us all taking to the skies at the same time.

Could be carnage – bit like the later stages of the Great North Run with all the Fancy Dressers coming in after 6 hours.

Good luck if that's you!