Some thoughts for Thursday.

31. According to the make-up artist who does us both, Kyle Sandilands is more professional than me. Should this concern me?

32. It is impossible to go to Hong Kong for a week without putting on three kilos.

33. There is a small group of people who watch TV with a magnifying glass. For the record, at no time during the show was I a) a freemason; b) sacked; c) dead; d) having marriage difficulties; e) wearing a hearing aid; f ) a walrus or g) snide. If I put my hand in my jacket it was because I was pretending to be Napoleon during the French challenge. If I wasn’t on the show it was because I was working at the Melbourne or Noosa Food & Wine Festivals. If I wasn’t wearing my wedding ring it’s because I’d taken it off to do the gardening and then forgotten to put it back on. Okay, maybe I was occasionally walrussy or snide. And that wire coming out of my ear was for an earpiece so that a very clever woman called Caroline Spencer could tell me what was for lunch and that yes, there was a dynasty of French kings called the Merovingians.

34. Melbourne people are cool – and a bit aloof.

35. Always try to dress like you are either a serve of several colourful scoops of gelati (perhaps vanilla, watermelon and chocolate), or the most lurid eighties cocktail at Studio 54. This will entertain you in quieter moments.

36. If you are a good cook you don’t have to follow a recipe word for word. Be brave, stop and think about what you’ve got and how confident you are you can improve it.

37. If an FM breakfast radio presenter asks you to taste something – don’t. It is unlikely to be nice.

38. Always be nice to the director, but it is the first assistant director who you really need to suck up to.

39. Never ego-search the web. Some people can be quite hurtful and cruel. And that’s just George Calombaris.

40. Never touch a pan taken from the oven with your lip to see if it’s hot.