Godley's World

After the fiasco of having food poisoning and still managing to do my shows, am excited it's all nearly over... not my life, the Fringe!

We are on the home run now people! Had some lovely people come to see my show, some Glasgow Celtic players (who I don't know), Dean Freidman, Jimmy Carr and Roland Gift, his wife Louise and the actress Diane Quick, all lovely!

Though Jimmy Carr's distinctive laugh had me giggling throughout my own show; it really is infectious! The crew from BBC Scotland's comedy department came in as well and we all went off for drinks. They are awesome now that they are under the helm of a new head of comedy and it seems they like me... how unusual! Took an English woman to introduce them to me! Maybe one day I will make it onto the Fred MacAuley show (he did keep promising, but it never materialised). Never mind, I was on BBC Radio 4 this week with my Comic Fringes short story and I did a Just a Minute on BBC Radio 4 as well!

Just told my pal Monica: "I need to write a blog, so you must ignore me."

"Easy done," she sniggered. She will suffer for that remark when I start vomiting again and she has to hold a pot for me to puke in. That's what friends are for.

My illness started on Friday night. I did my show, it was great fun, Monica clapped loudly, Dean Friedman (my lovely friend and musical hero) laughed loudly and we headed out of the venue. Monica and I walked up to the Gilded Balloon loft, I had some tea, Monica had a gin and immediately I got horrendous cramps in my lower abdomen.

"OK, maybe I need a poo," I said to Monica and headed for the toilet. The cramps continued. I broke out in a hot sweat and I decided it was time to go home. Poor Monica was on holiday and I just cut the night short by organising diarrhoea and stomach cramps.

Edinburgh loves its rain and it likes to mix it with wind. The weather has been a bit iffy but we are storming through it. I am past half way through the Fringe and I have only had one review. It was a five star review but one nonetheless.

PR companies are good at getting reviews in for comics; they meet the reviewer for a drink, chat with them afterwards, explain parts of the show that deserve five stars in case the reviewer didn't get it and then let the reviewer go as soon as they have secured a date for it going to press, preferably early on as it helps numbers.

Well, I don't have PR and am relying on the reviewers coming to my show, not drinking my cash but enjoying what I do and then heading off without so much as a by your leave from me, but hopefully happy with my work!