I returned to performing this week, sort of. One of my favourite ever comedy nights, Pear Shaped, has recently moved online. It was an institution of the London circuit and…
Author: Alex Love
Expanding the menu
When I was living away from home, I had a few meals I would cook routinely. In my first house in London, I would often eat pasta covered in butter…
Council meetings
With Handforth Parish Council making the headlines all over the place this week, I just want to say that I was covering parish council meetings before they got too mainstream.…
Teeth
I actually did something different this week, I went to the dentist. Admittedly, this isn’t the punchiest intro I’ve ever written. But I can only work with what I’ve got;…
Edinburgh Fringe 2021?
Is Edinburgh Fringe going to happen this year? Well, the short answer is that I don’t know. Thank you for your traffic, I appreciate you stopping by. I will give…
Screen time
For the next month, I have set myself the challenge of switching offmobile data every day from 10am to 3pm. The reason I am doing so isthat my phone has…
2021…
This year, I’m going to try and write something at least once a week and have Sunday as the designated day. I’m calling it a pledge at the start of…
2020 then…
It is fair to say that this year has been filled with things that I never envisaged 365 days ago. And I write this with a full-blown mullet, having today…
Old stomping grounds
Of all the utterly bizarre things to happen in 2020, I would have said that a global pandemic was far more likely to happen than me helping to cover a…
Standing up and locking down
The other week, I had my first comedy gig since 7 March. They say the secret to comedy is good timing. And I suppose it was, as England would be…