The internet has made it easy to get skint without leaving the comfort of your own home hasn’t it?   Got home from work this evening and finally got round to sposoring Eddie Izzard for his marathon of marathons.  I have been following his progress on Twitter, getting increasingly impressed by the achievement, and intending to make a donation before the end of the event – but didn’t get round to it until after he finished the last of his 43 marathons in 51 days.  I hope it is still within the timescale that an anonymous donor has promised to match all donations up to £43,000!

After that I saw that he was on tour and got tempted to buy tickets for one of the Brighton shows in November.  A bit steep at £30 a pop, but he is a legend… fortunately I couldn’t buy any.  I think it is sold out.  However, the attempt had got me in the mood to see some more comedy so instead I got some tickets for this Sunday at the Lyric Hammersmith – Al Murray and Alistair McGowan!  Hosted by Richard Herring, and half the price of Izzard.  Even better than that, the Lyric doesn’t charge a booking fee – it just gives you the option to make a donation to their youth theatre thing.

Brings back memories.  It must be twenty years ago that I volunteered to help out in their youth theatre and ended up painting scenery and operating a bloody great follow spot during the play.

Jayne doesn’t want to go out on Sunday, so it looks like I’ll be treating the boy again.