Like today – this morning when I was completing my son’s paper-round. My twins are away for Easter, Skiing with their school – while the rest of us stay in freezing temperatures but without the option of skiing. So this morning, I did his paper-round for him and beingĂ‚Â recognizedĂ‚Â (even with my hood up) with car…
When I say breaks through… Has it become the viral sensation that I had hoped -Ă‚Â and propel my two new books to the top of Amazon’s charts and sold thousands of my downloadable stand-up show? Er, no. For the time invested, Eclipsed has not beenĂ‚Â uneconomic. But money is too crude a measure of success and…
Enough already I know – but yesterday was the turn of my youngest son… Recently he took up the Baritone. I didn’t know there was such an instrument. I thought a Baritone was a male singer and most usually a fat one. None of my boys are fat. IĂ‚Â makeĂ‚Â altos more than tenors. Anyway, it turns…
Last night, my twins were in the their house play at school. A competition amongst six houses – each team doing a section fromĂ‚Â a famous play. I arrived as a bad dad. For some reason, I thought my boys were doing an exert from Sherlock Holmes. Wrong.Ă‚Â Chatting with a dad in the interval, it emerged…
Last night was full of mixed emotions for me. Pride that my son should win an award. Well done Tom. Bemusement to be in a room full of film luminaries who belong to an exclusive club that I have never managed to join myself despite repeated applications – and paraded before me were tooĂ‚Â many films…
The Great Room means a lot to comedians. When I say means a lot, what I really mean is that it providesĂ‚Â a lot.Ă‚Â The Great Room is the biggest and most prestigious corporate dining hall in a London hotel. Its location helps.Ă‚Â In the 5 star Grosvenor House Hotel on Park Lane. DailyĂ‚Â (sometime twice daily) The…
Exciting night in the Holland household but ultimately aĂ‚Â disappointingĂ‚Â one as Got to Dance played out on Sky1 with the gurning Davina giving it large as only she can. Tom had two friends from Billy Elliot competing in this prestigious event. Lewis Cope who was one of the boys in Tom’s summer school to become Billy…
This Saturday morning I was alerted by three answerphone messages that Tom had featured on the BBC’s Today programme in a feature of children being exploited. Understandably concerned and possibly angry I fired up my PC. Lil Poopy anyone? No, me neither. He is a 9 year old American rap star who is making headlines…
Last night, Tom and I attended the Goya Awards in Madrid – the Spanish Baftas and a brilliant example of the cultural differences within Europe. Both are show piece nights of their respective film years. Both are on TV. Both are staged on a Sunday night – before another busy week ahead. And here the…
It is a good experience getting stuff published in newspapers. The Mail asked me to write a feature after seeing my earlierĂ‚Â piece in The Independent. A good experience because it is the oxygen of publicity all epublishers need – or because it is just something new and exciting anyway? Probably a mixture of both. Anyway…
