Doing what I do, I get to meet lots of interesting people – and even more so these days being the father of a certain son.
This week I had lunch with a brain surgeon. Well, when I say ‘I’, I mean that I was one of a hundred and twenty people but he and I were on the top table and opposite each other and we immediately bonded.
Hottest day of the year and so great training for Edinburgh – and this evening I run out my set for the first time at Chesham Comedy Club – and I am feeling oddly relaxed about the whole thing.
Today I am alerted by an excited mate to a feature today in a newspaper with some inaccuracies but I will confine myself here to the only subject on which I am a world authority and expert, me…
On my to a gig in bonnie Scotland this evening, I have stopped off in Edinburgh to visit my venue for the imminent Edinburgh festival – the Voodoo Rooms Ballroom. A beautiful ballroom in a lovely old bar complex and certainly accessible and easy for people to find – being a minutes walk from the Apple store.
A comedy fund raiser this weekend for my son’s school – hosted by guess who, with a couple of my mates along for support.
Tom is in Singapore today – in front of legions of no doubt adoring fans.
Very early this morning, I’m half asleep. I say half asleep because I probably need a pee but I’m in denial – a situation not helped by the rain lashing down outside.
Fresh out of university and in my first job – selling non-woven fabrics for a company in Devon (I know, the glamour!) – but nonetheless I took the job very seriously and I worked very hard. Such that six months in, my boss awarded me a bonus of £500 and I was thrilled. At the time, £500 was my monthly take home pay and I decided that I should spend this money on something special and something I would always keep.
Some years back – a person kindly emailed me a list of typos in my novel, A Man’s Life. I am about to offer it as a print book and have a hope to glean out the errors. So hoping this person might still be out there and with better email recovery skills than me. If so, do get in touch as I have a blindness when it comes to typos…
But who is Nokia?
My old comic mates will know and so will the readers of Eclipsed.