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My daughter had seemed so into April Fool’s Day, but when it came to it, she couldn’t take it and she couldn’t really dish it out either. Her attempt to fool me was to come downstairs insisting that she was Carla who walks our dog some lunchtimes. She had no real disguise, except she had her pull along ducks with her. I pretended to be fooled and that she was Carla who for some reason was in our house walking ducks and Phoebe was delighted to call me an April fool. But any attempt to call her out on being one too resulted in a sulk. And then, when I played the egg trick on Catie as we’d discussed (in front of Catie this morning too) and Catie pretended to be astounded that her egg was empty, Phoebe cried. She said she had thought it was a real egg (how thick is she?) and was also upset that her mummy wasn’t going to get any food. Which was at least sweet. She perhaps has too much empathy and decency to be a truly great comedian.
Of course her mummy did have food - some scrambled eggs, but that didn’t make up for the cruelty.
Bless my lovely daughter.
I was into town early for a BBC London interview about RHLSTP and then to prepare for my brainy guests tonight: the brilliant ostrich-legged Professor Alice Roberts (in reality her legs are human and she has no marsupial pouch, though I am quite keen to marry the model of her adapted for peak human perfection which you’ll have to google) and the vote rigging cheats of No Such Thing as a Fish. I had a super time talking evolution and archaeology and being relatively sensible with Alice, before the mayhem of the admittedly rather brilliant Fish team. It was a whole lot of fun to interject myself into this foursome who have a great understanding of each other’s rhythms and characters and deserve their incredible 1.2 million downloads a month. It was a rip-roaring end to the series (though thanks to the ongoing nature of RHLSTP it’s a bit hard to ascertain where one series ends and another begins) and really fun to find myself essentially an honorary member of this team. All power to the podcasts - this globe trotting lot are showing how quickly the medium can propel people into the big time via through the support of audio loving nerds.
