If you read this blog in chronological order then you’ll be pleased to learn that I recorded the American show and sent it over with no major hiccups. The biggest bellyache was waiting for the file to upload to Google Drive, and once I had done that I was king of the world.

Tonight was a long arranged but postponed meeting up with Gary and Craig Barwell to discuss plans for a new comedy project that I am hoping to get off the ground. I had taken six sketches that I had written with me, not ‘written’ as such because I want them to be fairly improvised, but it was nice to get big laughs from simply reading out ideas so I knew I had written some good stuff. Craig showed me some sketches that he and Gary had done in the 1990s that we can adapt for the YouTube era. The plan is to take our time making a series of maybe ten sketches lasting less than a minute (apart from one I have written that can go on for about twenty minutes, but the joke is that it takes so long to deliver a punch line, this is a sketch from my Stewart Lee period) so that we can put out one a week for a period of ten weeks, then we can have a break and do another series. Apart from two sketches, one involving a team of circus clowns and one involving closing a street to film early in the morning with a cast of about fifty people, they are all relatively cheap to make. Of course it would be nice to be able to have the budget to do the two rather elaborate sketches, and if you want to help us to do it then the button is above this blog. In return I will keep pumping out free content for you to enjoy.

I’d told Mandi that I wouldn’t be ‘too long’ so it was inevitable that I wouldn’t get home until half past one, still it is career related and that’s more important than relationships right? Right? Is this thing on?

It was a great way to spend an evening/night though, once the shop talk was over and we’d talked about the sad demise of Prefontaine, we let rip with a laughter filled conversation about the Nottingham music scene and ripped into a certain fraction of it that we don’t like. It is one of the few conversations I have had in my life that I wish I had recorded because we’ll never recreate it. We managed to make Derek and Clive look like CBeebies presenters as we tried to outdo each other, maybe it’s a good job we didn’t tape it as we would have to leave Nottingham on the next bus.

As a result of the night running away with us I didn’t eat until about half past two after I’d taken Jack for a walk. I attempted to watch a few things on catch up that I’d recorded, and managed two episodes of The Simpsons before falling asleep and waking up at about five o’clock this morning. Mandi was working overtime again and I had intended to use the free time to catch up with a few things in the office, but going to bed and waking up at eleven before having breakfast and taking Jack out to the park was far more fun.

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