In my concerted effort to take control of my diary, I have managed to get myself booked to go and see Bill Bailey perform live with the BBC Concert Orchestra. On my birthday. A good combination! Also today, I've been booked in to go and see Chicago in London a couple of days before. Not bad at all.

I'm excited about seeing Bill Bailey live. I've seen him live once before and it was good. With a full orchestra, it should be totally mental! I still can't manage to bring myself to buy his early live DVD. I'm getting ever closer. I keep bidding for it cheaply on eBay and losing. Eventually, I'll crack and pay a squillion pounds for a full retail price version! Alternatively, someone might tell me that the version of "Bewilderness" in the box set is the same as the "Cosmic Jam" extended version and I might buy the box set for quite cheap and sell my "Bewilderness" and "Part Troll" on eBay to pay for it.

This is interesting to whom?

Me.

There are lots of dates entering my diary at the moment, which is nice. Not all of them involve me paying workmen many squajillions of moolah. This is good, too.

Now, if someone could just bring Edinburgh a bit closer...