I'm not saying that the thought of Lisa's cooking makes me feel like ending it all, but within half an hour of her announcing her intention to make cottage pie this morning, Amelie and I were heading straight for the nearest cliff...


That's just east of here. In fact it's east of half the world. We actually went for a clifftop walk at Peacehaven, home of the Prime Meridian - so called because it's only divisible by itself and Sky One.


Obviously if you're going to visit a cliff with some shadows, you really ought to do it on a summer holiday, but fortunately Amelie's one of the young ones, so we got away with it. The object in the background that looks like the top of a mosque is positioned at 0° longitude, and marks the point where the Greenwich Meridian leaves Britain, heading south towards... well, the south pole I suppose.

Here's Amelie effortlessly crossing from the Western Hemisphere to the Eastern Hemisphere using nothing but a pair of Clarks shoes and a good sense of direction...


She was last seen heading for the equator at high speed. But before she left, I took a photo of her at 12:00 GMT (Gardner Me Time), standing 5,586 miles from Rangoon...


According to the sign, she's also 2,893 miles from Halifax. But only if you go by minicab and avoid the M1.