Why Stephen Fry isn’t coming to dinner.

Why Stephen Fry isn’t coming to dinner. To celebrate the end of my concentrated spell of inactivity I thought a star-studded gala supper was called for. Followers of my musings will know of the fundraising project I have been undertaking in memory of Robin Williams to...

Blue Monday Awareness Day

Blue Monday. Why mathematicians will kill you or make you smell of piss. Having contended with ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Panic Saturday’, not to mention ‘Bit-of-a-Kerfuffle Wednesday’ and ‘I-Thought-it-was-the-Weekend...

Ice Bucket Challenge? Cool!

The NOTHING diaries Ice Bucket Challenge In aid of JLS? I was somewhat taken aback when I heard about the current social craze of the ‘ice bucket challenge’ in aid of JLS. The poor ex-X-Factor lads must have fallen on hard times since they split up; a...

Waxing, snot and falling off a bike

The NOTHING Diaries Waxing, snot and falling off a bike If you are seeking investment advice or are keen to learn the innermost secrets of the banking world, congratulations, you have come to the right place. By some quirk of fate, it turns out that I have about as...

Why I’m doing ‘Nothing’ for mental health charity

Mork & Mind I’m a comedy kind of guy: I was born within a few days and a few miles of Lee Evans, I share the same birthday as Jerry Lewis, and most poignant at the moment, I look (a bit) like Robin Williams. It could be worse, I could look like Mrs...