So there’s nothing much that’s been interesting enough to write home about, so I haven’t.

On the 14th I saw Lloyd Langford, who deserved a much bigger audience than the one he had. He worked well with the audience as well as the noise coming from Sammy J’s show next-door and was also very funny to boot. It was a highly enjoyable show.

From there we went to see Jon Richardson, who was more of the same, including being highly enjoyable, despite me having heard most of the jokes quite a few times before. Before the show I put a bottle of rose wine on the stage for him on Sorrel’s behalf and he seemed very grateful for it. Yay.

More of We Need Answers next, where we witnessed Josie Long defeat last year’s winner Paul Sinha in the first semi-final. Josie seems very deft at putting together Kinder Egg toys together inside of sleeping bags, which definitely helped her with her victory.

On the 15th I went and had breakfast with Sybil and Kirsty, which was nice and we had a good talk about anything and everything before Sybil got her train back to London and then Kirsty and I went to Waterstones to buy copies of Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better. I then went out with Sorrel so she could do the same and then I went with her to get a tattoo.

In the evening we saw Alun Cochrane, who wasn’t bad, though he didn’t particularly grab my attention until towards the end of his set. He gets points for noticing the minor in the room and telling him he’s going to learn some new swear words though.

Ali Cook was the second magician of the festival and the one I suspect will be the most boring. Sorrel and I both agreed that he had no showmanship, which is most of the act with a magician, spending most of his set telling awful, slightly racist or sexist jokes. When he did do tricks they weren’t anything special. Regurgitating fish I’ve seen Pete Firman do and guessing the word someone circles behind their back I’ve seen Chris Cox do, with much more style too. The only really interesting bit of his set was the climax where he proceeded to swallow razor blades followed by some string and then brought the string back out of his mouth with all the razor blades attached. More of stuff like that and less of the other stuff and jokes and he might have actually been half-decent.

We Need Answers next, again. It was the second semi-final of Schaal vs Cochrane. Now, earlier in the day we had been unable to find Kinder Eggs so as you could ask questions to possibly be used in the quiz I texted in asking why we couldn’t find any and if Mark had bought them all for yesterday’s task. It raised a smile on Alex Horne’s face, who’s in charge of the questions, who texted back that it was him who had bought them all, not Mark.

Other fun things that happened during the show was that Kirsty, Sorrel and I all got our Mark Watson audiobooks signed by everyone who was on the show: Minchin, Key and Watson. Also, we found out how hilarious it is to see men stuff lots of bananas, among other things, down tracksuit bottoms.

And that was generally my past two days. Woo.