The days when I could do a radio interview in my dressing gown or similar attire are gone, it seems.
This morning I was invited to go head-to-head with Cllr Paulette Hamilton, vice chair of the Local Government Association's community wellbeing board, on Five Live.
The BBC asked if we could use FaceTime Video so they could "visualise" the interview with a view to possibly posting a clip online.
This meant I had to shave and get dressed, a far cry from many radio interviews I have done from home.
Nothing however beats a former tobacco industry spokesman who told me he once did an interview with Radio Scotland naked on the balcony of his holiday home in Majorca. (Too much information!)
Anyway, a quick reminder.
Yesterday the LGA called for new eating and drinking areas outside pubs, cafes and bars to be smoke free 'to make them more family-friendly and healthy spaces as high streets look to recover from the lockdown'.
On Five Live this morning Paulette Hamilton tried to justify the policy on the grounds that it will help the Government achieve its goal of a 'smoke free' England by 2030.
The Government however has made it clear that it does not support an outdoor smoking ban.
Paulette also focussed on two other issues: one, attracting families and, two, the fact that many people want to eat in a 'smoke free' environment (which I get).
This line of argument ignores the point that many pubs are not designed to be 'family friendly', nor should they be expected to be. "Pubs aren't health clubs" as David Hockney has often pointed out.
A total ban on smoking in these new al fresco eating and drinking areas will also hit pubs, bars and cafes disproportionately because there are many people who just want to have a drink outside on their own or with other adults.
That is why individual businesses MUST be allowed to decide for themselves based on customer demand.
It doesn't take a genius to see where the LGA is going. Once councils have banned smoking in these new outdoor seating areas it's only a matter of time before anti-smoking campaigners will demand that all outdoor licensed areas must be 'smoke free' too.
After that, who would bet against smoking being prohibited in all pedestrian areas as well?
Anyway, if you want to listen to the Five Live interview (in which I was fully clothed), click here.
I'm also doing BBC West Midlands in a few minutes.