I had a couple of hours to sit around doing nothing this afternoon, once I was back from Manchester, but before I headed to Wimbledon for another gig. And I wasted it sitting on my sofa watching "Murder She Wrote" and "Diagnosis Murder" and tweeting sarcastically about them. Actually it was quite good fun. And great to have some time to waste without a deadline hanging over my stupid head.
It was very hot in my lounge and I fanned myself with my hand. The humid air felt icy cold on my face when I did this and I wondered why that was. How can waving your hand in something hot suddenly make it go cold? You'd think if anything all that waving would warm things up. But maybe I had come up with a new extremely cheap but somewhat time consuming method of refrigeration. Stop your milk going warm and sour by just keeping it in front of you and waving your hand over it at all times. It surely had to work. Think how much electricity would be saved, plus no more fridges would be needed. I was going to save the world.
But I decided to check on Twitter first to ensure it would work and ask how it was possible warm air could become cold like this. Many people answered, including @JohnBrea who informed me "Moving air causes evaporation of water from the skin; evaporation is an endothermic change and so cools the skin." So it would only be a way of keeping living things cool, and they are not likely to go off in the heat, so it's back to the old drawing board for my innovative hand fridge.
The Wimbledon gig was lovely, on an especially built stage on the common, in front of people having picnics and there were lots of them. I have performed to over 1300 people in the last four days and once again I couldn't help thinking that this run of lovely gigs is a great reward for those months and years of struggling and having to entertain 20 people a night. I just wanted to shout out to all the comedians out there and let them know that those awful nights of gigging in front of glum crowds or struggling to get open spots or touring the country and playing to six people a night are worth it. And in fact necessary. By doing those gigs you will really appreciate nights like tonight where four hundred or so people really dig what you're doing. Really enjoying the performance part of my job at the moment. Hopefully I can keep this run up in Tring on Thursday night. After which I get four nights off to celebrate my upcoming birthday.
Can't believe I am almost a third of the way through my forties. At least I have a good idea of what my show will be called in 2017.
People of Cardiff - stop eating seaweed for a second and listen to this. Andrew Collings and me are going to come to your fair city to record another CD of exclusive podcasts on November 3rd, and then in the evening we're going to do a live show too. If you want to come details of the event and tickets are
all up at the go faster stripe website Book ahead as it's a smaller venue than last time.
You London idiots can see us do a live show on 27th September at the Bloomsbury, which is already selling fast
So book here.
And if your Scotch people can wipe the shortbread crumbs off your keyboard we're doing 10 live podcasts in Edinburgh in August and are assured that the rest of the tickets will be available very soon
at the edfringe.com website.
It's an August-November UK tour, but we're not coming to Northern Ireland as punishment for having created Michael Legge.
