The London curse did not rear its ugly head - it had a good go but I slayed it and on Monday I got to the BBC comedy workshop. It was well worth it, we had a brilliant set of script editors guiding us through the day and were made to feel very welcome and inspired. That said I still managed to botch the end of my sketch but it did get its fair share of laughs at the evening performance.
I certainly came back feeling like I had a kick up the behind, in a good way. Perhaps it's old age but I am getting less tolerant of people taking advantage of my good nature (yes I do have one, don't pull faces) and I have to give more time and credance to following my ambitions. Ever notice the more you give of yourself, the takers actually show less apprecitation?
Well, no more. I am looking at my life as timetable and blocking off me time (I wonder if other freelance people who work from home identify with this?).
But let's not turn this into a moan of a blog when Monday was so helpful and positive. It was so good to be able to pick the brains of them that does and share a table with others who want to!
The evening performance was great fun and as well as having our sketches performed Lawrence & Gus tried out some of their new material which we'd been hearing rehearsed in the background back at the comedy dept. What we hadn't realised at the time was it was Lawrence & Gus, we thought it was the other half of the workshop who were just a lot better than us...
Workshop aside, there wasn't much time for anything else but loved the view from the hotel thanks to being on the 14th floor and even managed to find a few minutes for retail therapy and food at St Pancras which is looking great after its upgrade. The last time I was in London, St Pancras was still a worksite. Oh and for good measure - 2 Japanese tourists walked past me with face masks on and two French school children ran up to them and went 'aitchoo, aitchoo, aitchoo'.
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