February

[El Gordo]

Let’s just hope that race day isn’t 5 hours of living hell.

Ha ha! Welcome to my world.

On the audio was a selection of old comedies trawled up from the hard drive: Hancock’s Half Hour, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, and Just a Minute. For the final stretch I switched to the now traditional 80s party hits medley – guaranteed to put a smile on my face and an extra few inches in my stride. The Housemartins’ Happy Hour powered me down the home straight (what a good place to be, indeed), but TdJ must go to Tim Brooke-Taylor doing The Streets’ Dry Your Eyes.

Not dissimilar from the sort of stuff I bundle up to listen to sometimes. JAM and Clue have been my favourite radio half hours for most of my adult life. Have been to see both shows being recorded. Highly recommended if you can ever get there. A while ago, someone lent me recordings of JAM from back in the 70s when Kenneth Williams was the star. Just hilarious, and amazing how little it's changed. There was one memorable episode included where one of the team couldn't make it and Nicholas Parsons himself stepped in and became the contestant, with the producer taking the chair. Comedy gold, as they say.

And a thumbs up for the Housemartins. Love their stuff, and Happy Hour might be one of my Desert Island Discs, to prolong the Radio 4 theme.

Sounds like it's all going well, and as for.....

So, still on track… what can possibly go wrong?

..... I think we can confidently asnswer: "Nothing whatever". In fact, I will go further and say well done on a magnificent 4 hour Brighton marathon in that double thickness gorilla outfit. Shame it was the only one left available, but you did faff around a bit too long......