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…
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…