Photos from my holiday to Luxor, Egypt during April 2011. Egypt 2011, a set on Flickr.  

Hey, remember when I posted all about my little trip to Paris in 2009? Well that video is finally done! My talented video production specialist friend – Mr Iain Slater BSc BBC – has polished it up with his trademark high production value. He’s slow, but he’s good! Have a butchers at the finished product [...]

The final day’s shows were different, we tried to bring a touch of culture to the day, starting with a talk from Nicholas Carr at the Book Festival. Put simply, Carr believes the Internet is destroying our attention span, he thinks we are inadvertently ‘training’ ourselves out of being able to concentrate on longer tasks [...]

Day five, the day of the big headline gig. But to start we needed to warm up with something new. Caroline Mabey was a recommendation from last night, flyered with Josie Long’s show programme. Mabey greeted everyone at the door, handing out napkins in preparation for the show to come. She talked about breakfasts, using [...]

Day four, a four show day. Starting with It Is Rocket Science, Helen Keen’s one woman (plus shadow puppeteer) show all about rockets. Helen is charming throughout and clearly knows something about rockets, but the jokes fall a bit flat and she doesn’t connect with the audience. I’d have preferred she give a straight lecture, [...]

Day three, we’ve made it to day three, that’s exciting! It was a slower day today, only two shows but they were both big names. We kick off with Kevin Eldon titting about. He really does tit about, right there on stage, pulling half a dozen characters out of the bag throughout. Paul Hamilton (Kevin’s [...]

After Josh Howie saved our Monday we continued the curly haired middle-aged theme with Andy Zaltzman. Andy told us about the life changing impact that delivering your own child has on a person, I don’t doubt it. The show was full of satire and cricket references (as is Zaltzman’s style), a sure hit with any [...]

We travelled to Edinburgh on the flying scotsman (which is disappointingly just a regular diesel train), the journey meanders through beautiful countryside (and for a brief time Newcastle) so is really very pleasant. First impressions of Edinburgh are very confusing; it’s one big hill with lots of levels, making finding anywhere in a lot less [...]

Paris is absolutely freezing in February so god knows why we chose to go then! But it was fantastic to go back to Paris; to see the Eiffel Tower, to eat great food, to offend French people. And as always we had a mission: to compile Fifty Facts Française and make a video. You’ll have [...]

A trip to London, the challenge: to visit 26 sights, from A to Z, in order. Yeah, so, we didn’t actually plan this and instead just turned up in London with some cameras, a map and a travel card. We made a good job of it though, we got to all 26 sights. Piccadilly Circus [...]