26 April - Media & Circus

Driving in central London, saw the lookouts, green tree houses dotted outside Buck Palace on Green Park side and erected also outside Westminster but not amongst trees. How much are networks being charged? Or is it purely their own cost? What's the security there? Would be perfect place for a rogue sniper surely.

Will have assorted friends of friends either in those lookouts or in a corridor at BBC/CBS news dealing with feeding links etc. Will there be any Gaddafi news on the day or next few days or all Kate & Wills? I wonder. And poor Tim Etherington and US colleague. And trust a friend of ours who usually has nothing to do with war or photography, to be quoted in the Standard about Tim (who I doubt he knew, but may have rubbed shoulders with at a festival) . An impressive talent for self promotion, always.