Ok I will post this tid bit first but it is at the bottom of paul's update to his site ( my paperback copy of Sient Clowns arrived yesterday!)
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My is that the time. Since I last pencilled words for this internet thing. So much has happened. Here's one incident.
On February 13th at 6.06 in the evening, a taxi dropped me off around the back of the new BBC building in White City. Trying to find my way to the One Show studio I mistook a plate glass window for an open thoroughfare and walked straight into it.
The impact knocked me to the ground and I lay there, my forehead throbbing like a walnut in a microwave, I could see a rather startled BBC staffer pointing out my prone position, to a nearby member of security. Being English I climbed to my not insubstantial height and waved through the plate glass that I was actually fine, despite my transparent nutting.
An hour later I'm sitting on the One Show couch chatting about my Alfred Hitchcock documentary while suffering a fair degree of concussion. One of the few drawbacks to being recognised as a funny person is that when I have to impart serious information which might be a joke, everyone assumes it is a joke. So when I told a member of the production staff that I had just walked into a plate glass window she laughed politely and offered me a banana.
A couple of days later I flew to Germany to shoot the first leg of a television series for Channel 5. We filmed for three weeks, and then I came home. It was only after a week of being back that my mild concussion finally subsided. So if later in the year you see me in Germany as dizzy as a salmon in a laundrette you will know why.
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