One of the reasons why I love London so much is that you never know what you’ll come across next. I was trundling through Greenwich Park earlier, fretting over this and that, wondering what on earth had happened to summer, when out of the corner of my eye I spotted something interesting. A film crew was at work down the hill from the observatory. It wasn’t very big, but it was clearly using a lot of high spec, professional equipment. Of course I Immediately charged course to investigate.

My mind naturally went back all those summers to when I met Danny Boyle filming in Charlton House, but this was clearly a different kind of production. Appropriately enough though, when I asked one of the .crew what they were filming, they told me it was something to do with the Paris Paralympics: it was a promotional film for Bupa about two para-athletes as they prepared for the games.

After a short trip home to get a jumper, the rest of my day was spent watching the filming. It was extremely cool to see a professional production crew at work – they were even using a proper clapper-board and everything! I spent the rest of the afternoon in Greenwich Park following the film crew around as they went from site to site. They were friendly people and I think I made a few friends. I was, however, told that I couldn’t give too many details away here, but I’ll probably say more in due course.

How can you not love a city where there’s a chance that you can come across a film crew at any moment?