Family, and other entertainments.

Being in Cambridgshire it seemed like a good idea to call by to visit my brother, who recently moved to Cambridge. He has a new job, which seems a little odd, as I still have a little trouble remembering that he is a real grown up, now. I think it is partly because he is enough younger than me that he was a student for lots of the time since I started working, and partly because I don't really understand his job, so it's hard for me to put it in context!

And as well as working full time, he's currently studying for an Open University degree, so it's not as though he's busy, or anything.... It was really nice to have the chance to just sit down and talk - mostly we tend to meet up at family parties, where there tends not to be time for lengthy conversations.

So that was a very pleasant morning :-)

I couldn't stay longer, as in order to get back home in time to go to Bill Bailey's show in Bristol I needed to leave just after lunch.

I hadn't realised when I booked the ticket that it was not only the last night he was in Bristol, but also the final show if the tour, which I think added a certain end-of-term feeling to the show! Such as the part where the crew had put glue on one of the monitors so Bill's foot stuck to it, and the part where he threatened to keep the whole theatre in until the audience member explained her comment about Nelson's Column....

It's difficult to pick a favourite part of the show, although hearing 'I've got a Brand New Combine Harvester' sung in German, with a West Country accent, in the style of KraftWerk was, I think, the most memorable....

I'm glad I went. The man is a comic genius.