Did you know we have a bird that sounds like a car alarm? Neither did I til the other morning when it woke me up with incessant chirping. Clearly I’m assuming it was a bird as I was in bed with the curtains drawn but the fact that it’d stop for a bit before starting again and that it was also at different volumes gave it away. It very much reminded me of Russell Howard’s skit on Mock The Week, even if that was about birds being attracted to car alarms and horns. It’s the same principle.

In other news I’m pretty much as packed as I can be for the Sarcastic Voyage on Wednesday. I went to Tesco today and bought a couple of lilos for £1.50 each to sleep on and tomorrow I’m off into town for a few other odds and sods. After that there’s just stuff like my toothbrush, phone and purse to pack and I’m all ready for Wednesday morning. Incidentally, Latitude got the times up for most of the acts today and it looks like I’m getting about seven hours of comedy each day, which is fine by me, but I just wish I could find out when they’re recording Just a Minute in case there’s the possibility that I can go see it. I’ll also be seeing if I can drag folk to see Dave Gorman in the Literary tent just cos he’s awesome.

In other not so awesome news I’ve either picked up a stomach bug, which seems unlikely as none of my family are affected by it, or I’ve eaten something nasty. My stomach just feels awful. I’m betting it was those out of date flapjacks. Can you even get ill from out of date flapjacks? You must do cos I can’t think of anything else it could be. But then again, if that’s the case then it should pass in a day or two hopefully.