Monthly Archives: August 2009

This may well be my holiday, but it doesn’t mean I’m sitting around sipping cappuccinos and watching the world go by. I’m putting a fair amount of effort in. I started yesterday with breakfast in my favourite coffee shop in … Continue reading →

For those people who are reading these posts on Facebook, thinking that I’m writing some pretty long notes to myself, think again. This isn’t Facebook-noting, it’s blogging. Blogging is what we had before we had twitter. Twitter, with its 150 … Continue reading →

The Fringe can get pretty intense. Yesterday was a seven show day for me. It might have ended up with more shows in, but it rained and I needed to get home to get my contact lenses out and… well, … Continue reading →

Turns out that it’s done like this:

Yesterday I performed four times and got rather tired. I ended up having an early night. The shows generally went well, and I even managed to have an evening meal at a sensible time. Outside of stuff on stage, the … Continue reading →

Usually it takes until the middle of the Fringe, or at least one week in, before the fug of confusion and exhaustion sets in. Unfortunately, in my case, as I’ve been getting steadily unhealthier, I’m pretty much knackered and confused … Continue reading →

And now, here’s a further installment in the frankly unscintillating story of what I did on my summer holiday. To understand why this is a holiday, despite what I’m about to describe, you have to understand how the rest of … Continue reading →

By popular non-request. Here is where to find me on stage regularly: 13.25 – The Counting House – The Seven Deadly Jokes15.30 – The Hive – The Great Big Comedy Picnic – Pig Flu Extra16.50 – Espionage – The Great … Continue reading →

I’m now awake, obviously, otherwise how would I be writing this – I’m a geek, but I’m not the sort of uber geek who can blog in his sleep, or even transmit data directly from his dozing brain via WiFi. … Continue reading →

I’ve resisted the iPod for a long time. I think there’s a dichotomy over such a device. On the one hand, I don’t like the way that it feels like one company’s proprietry format that has been used as a … Continue reading →