Tired after a late gig and pondering my set tonight at The Comedy Store, my phone rings. It’s a Canadian number, so I know that it is either my eldest son, Tom – currently making a movie in Canada, or my second son, Harry, accompanying Tom and helping out with the camera dept on said film.
Readers of Eclipsed will know about my appearance in July on ‘Celebrity The Chase’ and the secrets that I reveal in the book pertaining to this show. As things turned out, it was an unnecessary revelation but one I am happy to leave out there anyway.
Back from Edinburgh and after a brief bout of post-festival head cold (exhaustion) this morning at home and it seems that things are back to normal. Our hall is full of boxes with a further delivery of copies of Eclipsed plus a new batch of jiffy envelopes.
Regular readers of this blog will know that Tom and I support Anthony Nolan, a charity that matches donors tissue with people with blood cancer.
Edinburgh 2017 is about to close and I will write a more fulsome account of what has been a remarkable experience for me and team Holland.
Anyone who has seen my show Eclipsed or read my book will know how much fun the whole thing has been for me and my family. Even the low points of my career seem appropriate now and serve a purpose for my story and so I enjoyed reflecting and explaining why they happened and how I coped.
A busy day in Edinburgh with Nikki, Sam, Paddy and Tess – dodging the rain and making final preps for my show Eclipsed starting tomorrow at the Voodoo Rooms, Ballroom.
Okay, for the first time in over a decade, I am back in Edinburgh and about to start my run with my new show, Eclipsed.
Over the last couple of nights, I have done my last previews of Eclipsed and tomorrow head north to Scotland’s first city.
Many of you will know that I have long supported the Anthony Nolan Charity – the largest register of bone marrow tissue in the UK – a vital chance of life for people with blood cancer.