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I can't quite believe it, but we did it! We hit the £20,000 target with about a day and a half to spare. I thought we'd set it much too high. But some canny additions to the rewards and a bit of hard work from me got us there. Should have gone for £25k!
This not only gives us a little Covid year boost, but means that all the profits from the snooker kickstarter can go to charity so it's double good news. Still a couple of hours to get on board (as I write) http://rhlstp.co.uk/kickstarter. You won't be able to get this stuff anywhere else (other than eBay at inflated prices)
The whole idea of Ally and Herring's Twitch of Fun is that it would be a fun bit of improvised nonsense that I would throw together on the night. We're only 8 shows in and already it's taking up my whole day - not because I am writing anything (that should be obvious) but because I have to scour the papers, load up pictures for the little box and do work on trying to perfect the visuals. I have plans to complicate it further and so it might start to take me days or even the whole week to do, but I think it's worth it. Even hot on the heels of last night's fundraiser tonight still felt packed with ideas and laughs (and rubbish bits). I don't even feel ashamed any more, which might not be totally positive. The Ally and Sally relationship has solidified very quickly and she made another appearance tonight. Donkey reluctantly tried out his birthday section (if it's your birthday next week, please send in a photo or preferably some kind of Cbeebies style collage of you and your favourite characters and say what you want Donkey to do and you might be on “TV†- if you watch it on TV)
All I can say is this week feels like the hardest I have worked for months and I've written a book in that time. I am having such fun with all this silly improvisation though (I especially enjoyed doing Stevie Martin's book club) and the idea of slowly putting together something that one day might actually pass for a “proper†comedy show is very rewarding. And I suppose getting to the point where viewers and ads are helping us fund so much stuff, there's no worries beyond getting on with creating stuff. So your badger payments, kickstarter backing and just listening to the stuff with ads in is very much appreciated.
Looking forward to my long weekend off (might do snooker on Tuesday night as we're off to Legoland on Monday) but what larks it has been to dick around.
My daughter was keen to get involved tonight and crept out of bed to see what I was doing. Luckily we weren't broadcasting so I let her sit in front of the green screen. She asked me what would happen if she came upstairs when I was on and said “Hello, I am Phoebe. I have a gap where I have lost my tooth†and I told her it wasn't a good idea, but to be fair it's as good as anything currently in the show. I prefer to have her as a possible voice of a Victorian child ghost in the background though. Ernie is quite obsessed with Ally and keeps asking to see the little man and sang him a lullaby the other day. So I don't know which of them will be bequeathed this cursed doll when I am gone. All I know is that, accidents excepted, Ally and Sally will live on long after I am gone. My mum emailed to say that my great-grandad would not have liked the swearing that the dummies do with me (which just made them swear even more tonight), but even the creator of the dummies has no power of what their voices will be in the future. I suppose the worst thing they could do with them is not care about them.
