This week the planets really did align… On Monday in England, we were finally allowed by our masters to play sports again – the clocks went forward, thereby extending our evenings and daylight hours – and then the sun (which thankfully is not controlled by our masters and politicians) decided to play ball also by…
Continuing on with my spate of writing of a more personal nature, during lockdown, like me, many of you will have completed very cathartic house clear outs of clutter and accumulated stuff. Stuff we have no use for and are better off without. For this, cupboards/drawers need to be cleared and ordered. One of my…
Who doesn’t wonder in awe at our bodies, what they can do and what we humans are capable of? Run a marathon in less than 2 hours and create innovations like mobile phones and electric cars. Admittedly such accomplishments are mainly the feats of other (more remarkable) people but nonetheless, all feats we can marvel…
An important night lies ahead for me – perhaps the most important gig of my year – which I had expected to be my TED talk until I began speaking in a half empty room. Tonight is not a TV comeback gig or even a very well paid and welcome corporate gig – but a…
Stand-up comedy is often used as a route to more glamorous realms. Most talk show hosts in the US and some in the UK are or have been stand ups. Many actors too and even movie stars herald from stand-up. Michael Keaton. Eddie Murphy. Woody Allen. Tim Allen. Steve Martin. John Candy. Kevin Hart… But…
This stand-up bill of comics who have passed grows ever longer and now reads like one of the big benefits on C4 – and this week our much loved Ian Cognito added his name to the list – and would make a good claim to close the show! Because when Ian was on – few…
Today is a landmark day in the Holland household. A true first – or at least a first in over twenty years. I refer to the return of Patrick from his school tour of Sri Lanka – and the end of this kid free house that we have been for the last week. Not to…
A rare thing when anything technology wise works for me but I have news to share, aside from new Instagram stories and two successful vlodcasts on youtube with more planned… Although my website www.dominicholland.co.uk is ‘terrible’ according to any number of people who tell me so on-line and it needs a complete overhaul… which is…
Much debate and discussion about Brexit – variously described as a disaster or an opportunity depending on perspective and with purported experts lining up on both sides, so what chance the ordinary punter of making any sense of the damn thing? An area that interests me is culture and how varied the people of Europe…
I have never been woke or trendy. I don’t even remember being down with the kids, when I was a kid and so last week, I felt very current and modern when I was required to wear a dress for a commercial casting. Comics of a certain age who happen to be pale, male and…
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