December T-Mail
Reindeer T-Fans (Deer, cos it’s December and reindeers yeah? Yeah? No? Oh.) It’s that most wonderful time of the year when the new Star Wars film and a the possibility of World War 3 lurks around the corner all to commemorate the birth of baby Santa Claus a few decades ago. Are you feeling Christmassy? […]
NOVEMBER T-MAIL
Howdy T-Folks* The other day L spotted a mouse in our kitchen. It scuttled across the kitchen top then disappeared, and hasn’t been seen since. However, in the past four days we’ve started to receive post for ‘Ms N Clerks’, someone who, to our or our landlords’ knowledge, has never lived here. Could it be […]
’34’
Apart from her willingness to avoid tax or her oft complaints about being famous (hard life innit?), I have nothing much against Adele. Today her new single ‘Hello’ has been released, from her originally titled album ’25’, because she’s y’know, 25. The internet, as it’s prone to do, has gone bonkers over it, saying how […]
Knowing Everything About Nothing
Today I had the pleasure of being that expert on the news that has no idea what they’re talking about. You know the one? They’re asked all sorts of serious questions and they squirm slightly over a video link, and repeat themselves fifteen times while trying not to sweat profusely? Well, I played the role […]
‘We’re safer with Nuclear Weapons’
Nine days ago I was standing in line at the Hiroshima Memorial Park Museum, looking at the remnants of a tricycle of a small three year boy who’d been outside when the atomic bomb was dropped on August 5th at 8.15am. His father found the barely alive child clutching the handlebars and trapped under the rubble […]
How Dare They?
‘How dare all these refugees want to come over here and escape their terrifying war torn situations? I’ve been watching the reports on the news and I am disgusted that we are even beginning to let any of these other human beings shore up in the UK, instead of pushing them into the sea or […]
EdFringe 2015: Epilogue
August 2015
Filed Under: baked potato, Blog, Chris Hadfield, Comedy, edfringe, Edinburgh Fringe, ESA, Festival, Free Fringe, George Monbiot, News
I’m at home, in my PJs, after having slept in a bed that wasn’t just a thinly designed cover for a bag of springs, and having eaten food with vitamins in it. I am the sort of tired you can only have after performing nearly every day for 3 and a bit weeks straight. I […]
Fringe Benefits Pt 2
It’s now only 3 sleeps till I’m allowed to go home and I thought I’d write an update to THIS BLOG as some people seemed concerned that I was a bit miserable. Fear not all three people that read this, I’m really honestly not. It is hard to get the Douieb down, and I can […]
Fringe Benefits?
Tonight at the fringe I saw one of the comedians whose material I’ve enjoyed for years, do one of the best and most well constructed stand-up shows I’ve seen at this fringe. Afterwards he told me that he’d had the lowest audiences numbers this year than ever before. He’s not on telly. He probably won’t […]
Everyone’s A Critic
August 2015
Filed Under: Blog, Carl Sagan, Chris Hadfield, Comedy, critics, edfringe, Edinburgh, News
One of my least favourite things about the Edinburgh Fringe festival other than the rain, the length of it all, Saturday crowds, Friday crowds, Sunday crowds, Monday crowds…oh ok, sorry…are the reviews. I understand why the world believes they need to happen. There are 3000+ shows here at the fringe everyday and so the best […]