I had a very pleasant weekend of sport, comedy, good weather, seeing babies and meeting girls. Good times, indeed. But now I'm knackered.

It was a very flying visit back to Oxford to see mum and dad on Friday before heading back to London for the first NSN24 corporate gig! We had been booked as a light entertainment turn to entertain the hard-working people at eBay. We were all pretty nervous beforehand but I think it went down a storm! Which at least means that people we don't know can be persuaded to like the show. The gig was at the Naked Turtle restaraunt in Richmond. There are two things you need to know about the Naked Turtle: 1. The waitresses are completely gorgeous; 2. And I mean gorgeous. Actually there are 3 things because they are super talented as well. In between dishing out the food they go up to the microphone and belt out some songs. The lovely Katie had been at RADA with our own Andy Mulligan so they were very friendly and kept bringing us drinks all night long. :)

Saturday I had a day all to my own in London town. Can't think when that last happened. I spent much of the morning improving the living conditions of my goldfish Angie, who, frankly, has to put up with quite a lot. She is now the proud owner of a clean tank, with new weed and some "live food" goldfish treats. Do I ever know how to show a gal a good time!

I then went out into the cool clear November day.


and had a bit of a wander round town before heading off to meet the proud parents of this lil' guy:


In the evening I went on a date with a girl! She was really nice and I hope we will meet up again. That's all I'm gonna say right now.

Sunday was really exhausting. A full day of Ultimate with my team PAF in the London Winter League was great fun. The weather was perfect: crisp and still. If the cold hadn't done for the batteries in my camera I could have shown you the rosy-cheeked faces of our team after our Won 2 - Lost 2 performance (which is pretty good by our standards). Unfortunately the cold has also done for my car. It wouldn't start that morning and things weren't any better by the evening when I had to head up to Islington for our show. This meant humping the NSN weather map (A0 size), all the props and costumes on the tube which was a bit of a palaver. But I made it to the Hen and Chickens in good time.

I've been really looking forward to these Hen and Chickens gigs. It's a really great venue and one with a bit more prominent reputation. If things go well we can get some more regular shows there in the new year. Well things went very well on Sunday night. It was another sell out (our third in a row!) and I'd give it an 8 out of 10 mark. We've made a few minor changes to the running order of the show and its working much better now. And the cast are really getting into the swing of things now that they are all comfortable with the format.


Loads of friends had come that night and even my aunt and uncle from Oxford so that was really great. I even met another very lovely girl! That's also all I'm gonna say right now.