This morning I skipped breakfast because I couldn't be arsed, then I stole two currant shortcake biscuits from the office cupboard and had them with a nice cup of tea while I checked Myspace, where an empty inbox greeted me like a slap in the face. If I could take my tea from a vessel of my choosing it would undoubtedly be the one pictured right, offering as it does the advantage of ample snack storage facilities, but you can't always get what you want. What did you have for breakfast this morning?

Which brings us nicely to this week's chart rundown, where there's a twinkle in Sean Kingston's eye as he spends a fifth week atop the single charts, the stirrings of a title assault on Rihanna's ten-week crown perhaps in evidence. Babyshambles ghost in at six with 'Delivery', and without wishing to give the game away, if I were to describe forthcoming album Shotter's Nation using an adjective, as is the fashion nowadays, I could prefix said adjective with the word ‘very' and end up with an apt summary of its overall quality.

Curing Jet Lag

Combat jet lag with simple preventive measures The dictionary defines "jet lag" as "a temporary disruption of the body's normal biological rhythms after high-speed air travel through several time zones." OK, this isn't anything we haven't heard or experienced before, right? So, from a medical standpoint, what is jet lag? "Circadian rhythms" are our bodies' natural time clock. They run on a 24-hour basis, like the days. If you travel to Arizona from Los Angeles, you're OK. Jet lag doesn't really kick in. But as you approach the rest of the country, and as the time change grows, your body's timer stays either ahead or behind. how do we combat this? Find out the time change ahead of time. Try to adjust your sleep habits about a week before you leave. Start by going to bed either a half-hour earlier or later, and work up.