As I am sure that you are aware, we are as always,  a little behind on the next NSD. I openly admit that this is my fault, I have been finding it very difficult to motivate myself. I also want to get some stand up done soon, but again I was struggling with this and all of the other stuff going on in my life at the moment.

Then it dawned on me, I am going to start a new podcast, it doesn’t have a name as yet but it is basically going to be short bits of stand up style comedy done totally by me. I was intending for it to be fairly regular and also fairly short, probably in the region of 5-10 minutes each.

It is still in the very early stages at the moment, and it might not happen, but I think that it might as I am very excited about it. I am hoping that it will give me the kick up the bum that I need to get on with the next NSD too.

Have fun people, and remember wherever you are in Britain, you are never further than 10 feet away from a rat… (Insert a hilarious Darren Day joke here, using the EC joke insertion scheme.)

Hello you, you look like you have lost some weight. You are looking great, really great.

Me? Oh really? Okay.

Well firstly I have a back door now, it has only taken over a month to sort that out. But now I have something that will keep the outside, outside.

As for FTLFM, I no longer look after that. Don’t ask me why as I am really not sure. Della decided that he wanted to write a new board and host it. I came on MSN one night to find that they had done it. Which was odd as I knew nothing about it. I have mixed emotions about it to be honest. I spent a lot of time getting that board working well, I am not a programmer after all. And it was working and was in a state where I didn’t need to do much maintenance, but I did keep checking on it. So in that way I am quite glad to have it taken away as I have plenty of other stuff that I should be doing. The new board is here: mebelihttp://igor.ifaze.nl/ftlfm/

I think that this gives me the perfect time to back out of FTLFM, I have not done a show for a long time anyway, and I am not enjoying it anymore. I promised myself that when something like that stops being fun I will stop doing it, as I have a habit of hanging on to something for too long and it bringing me down. I have left FTLFM before, but that was before most of the current listeners and DJ’s were even involved. That was under different circumstances, in that there was a large difference of opinion between some of the other DJ’s and myself. Not this time, just time to leave with some fond memories. Thanks FTLFM and all that have sailed in her.

Anyway, on a similar note, I haven’t been writing the next NSD, and I am sorry for that. I have plans to start writing the remaining bits very soon. I am writing some new stuff for stand up too, although I am finding that quite hard to consider.

Right, bed for me. Night.

Lots of things have happened of late, but let’s start with the latest first. At roughly 6.00pm today there was a really loud banging on the door. I went thinking that it was my friends who only left a few minutes earlier who had forgotten something.

Outside there was a bloke that I didn’t know looking terrified with a bit of 2 by 4 in his hand and a one eyed dog. (I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried, could I?) He said that some lads who were driving around illegally on motorbikes had punched him and attacked him, and could I call the police. Outside my garden there was another much younger fitter looking lad shouting that he had attacked him as he was the man that had burgled my house. You know how sometimes you make an instant judgement on someone, I just had a gut feeling that the lad on the street was lying, too cocky by half. So I called the police, but refused to let the man into the house, but kept an eye on him while he was in my garden. I wasn’t letting him in as the girls were still here and I have only just been burgled and I really didn’t need someone else coming in to see what had been replaced…

So the police talk to him and it was obvious that he was telling the truth, so they turn up and take him home. Problem is that I am now very clearly marked out in the area, everyone was standing and watching. No one else helping though, I noted. I hope that I can move soon. I still have no back door by the way.

On the positive side, the money from Jen’s house should be sorted soon, and then I can think about moving. I cannot wait now, it is getting like a demilitarised zone around here these days.