Face of the future

I had a moment's panic yesterday morning when I checked my invititation to Sunday night's Daily Post Face of the Future competition grand final and saw the words: "Dress code- stylish".
I was about to join a judging panel of hairdressers, catwalk coaches, dress designers and model agency talent-spotters. Frantic searching through the wardrobe revealed one rather heavy winter suit (dark brown) and a selection of jeans and anoraks from my "2004 dog walking in Snowdonia" collection.
Mrs Editor suggested I should make one last-ditch attempt to squeeze myself into my one decent suit - a rather natty pinstripe number from Jaeger which last fitted me about five years ago.
Thank goodness, all the dog walking has paid off - it fits again.
Mind you, I remained the ugliest bugger on the judging panel but we had a most entertaining day as we whittled down our 20 contestants to choose the Daily Post/Tommy's hair salon Face of the Future - and congratulations to Naomi Jones from Denbigh on her victory.
We left the fashionistas in the VIP lounge at Venue Cymru and headed back to the Liverpool Arms for a last orders pint - that's when the second panic of the day happened.
John Williams, our night editor, called to say that the computer system had failed, meaning today's paper was in jeopardy, Most of the pages were complete but the pictures from the model competition had not yet made it back to the office because of the system problems. And that meant we had ruddy great holes on pages one, six and seven.
Mercifully the system fired up again after 90 minutes and John did a fantastic job getting the pages finished off only minutes after our official deadline. You can see the results in today's edition.