I have had the dreaded over 50s illness – my prostate is swollen, and it’s pissing me off, or rather it’s stopping me from pissing off. It was only confirmed less than 2 weeks ago, when the GP finally did the finger up the bum trick, he actually pulled out an old number plate! not really. He gave m some Tamislosin, sounds like the welsh word for sweets Loshin, and told me it reduces testosterone. Not sure whey he said that because it doesn’t do that. In fact i’m not sure if it’s helped me much at all. i still have to get up in the night about 3 times. So. already am i contemplating the operation to reduce it. which i guess comes with risks. But there’s side fx from the pills anyway, not good ones.

I also had to go to see the emergency GP in Morriston hospital because of my breathlessness. I thought it could be smoking catching up with me, or total lack of fitness, i mean getting out of bed would make me breathless. But the man detected a different sound at the top of my left lung, which he reckoned was an infection. and antibiotics does seem to be helping, which is a relief – maybe i’ll have a joint to celebrate.

Did a gig in Taunton, Eleri came along….it went ok except we had one of our inevitable rows towards the end of the trip, over something silly. The room was good as was breakfast – the hotel was where the comedy happened, a tricky audience.

The Duke of Corwall.

Last weekend i was down in Plymouth, doing Captain Smith – that went well, i remembered to spray my hair with white stuff, and it lent a distinguished look to my otherwise bland countenance. Around the same time i made a short promo video for upcoming Shazia Mirza gig at Craig y Nos…Jeanie filmed it, and then i took all the parts and edited them together. I took inspiration from the new Histoire Dinner Theatre production (coming up) Scrooge. I will be Jacob Marley, and i used some bits of that script in teh promo video, becasue Craig y Nos is well known to be haunted by spirits…