The admin secret

This past week, I finally stumbled on the most successful and effective approach for comedy admin. And by comedy admin, I mean emailing or messaging promoters to book gigs. It…

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Gigging again

On Thursday, I performed a stand-up set for the first time in six months. In these Covid times, I have had a few long gaps between gigs. So, I almost…

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To not to Fringe

The Edinburgh Fringe early bird deadline has passed and I have not put in a show application or even made any provisional enquiries. For those not in the know, the…

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More about hops

I missed an entry last week, mainly because I forgot. It’s commitment like that that gets me all the traffic here. So much traffic. I may as well talk about…

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The two-year mark

This week marked two years since I arrived back from New Zealand. I had been travelling for more than 30 hours, then passed through through an eerily quiet Paddington Station…

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Hop to it

A few months ago, I moved my hops from the unexpectedly shady veg patch to the border at the front of the house. They say that the first year for…

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