I’m off to the beach for two weeks. Sandcastles, ice-creams all over the bleedin’ car, many hundred miles of the Ben 10 Alien Force series one box-set.

Timesheets done. Work handed over.

So guest-blogging for the next fortnight will be Gerry Grewal, a Speed director who should need no introduction, but here’s one anyway. Ten things about Gerry, to tee things up:

1. The nearest phonetic pronunciation is ‘Grey Wall’. Very eastern bloc
2. She is partial to glowsticks
3. She is about to marry a former colleague
4. Hails from Hounslow, may have once been in a posse there
5. Most likely to say.. “Ugh”
6. Claims to follow Fulham FC. Attends home games, memory and knowledge generally hazy though
7. Likes (what amounts to) easy listening music, inc Fleetwood Mac
8. Chat up line that saw her engaged: “You’re a cheeky b*stard”
9. Is feared by customer services at Harveys furniture stores
10. In her 30s