I'm been away all week working of course.

It started on Monday when I left the house at 10am with Sarah's suitcase and headed up to London on the train. I had meetings all day then I had to oversee a rig from 6pm onwards at a venue in London. Once that had finished I grabbed a cab and headed for Euston.

I then caught the overnight sleeper to Edinburgh - it left about midnight and arrived in Edinburgh at 7:30 the next morning. I had something to eat in the restaurant car before heading off to bed. To be honest the room was a bit basic and it was like sleeping on a roller-coaster. Breakfast was delivered at 6:30 and by 7:30 I was feeling really claustrophobic and was glad to get off!!

I was then stuck in Edinburgh with nothing to do for three and a half hours and it was really cold. I decided to head for the hotel where I would be staying that night and leave my bags. When I asked if that would be ok the nice lady behind the reception actually gave me my room which meant I could go and get some work done.

The hotel in question was the Parliament Hill Hotel which is 5 minutes walk from Princes street. My room overlooked a cemetery but was really nice non the less. At least I didn't have to worry about noisy neighbours!! I then spent most of the day working at the Balmoral Hotel eventually getting finished at about 9pm.

We set off for something to eat but decided to have a drink first and we ended up in a pub called the Black Rose Tavern which was a rock pub. It was all dressed up for Halloween and the barmaid was in full Goth outfit (well t least I think she was dressed up for Halloween for all I know she might always dress like that!!) They had bowls of "trick or treat" sweets on the bar and went round at one point handing out toffee apples!!

It was strange to see all these people dressed the way I would have been dressed at their age and listening to the same music I was when I was their age!! The juke box was really good and we ended up staying there all night and never did get to eat!!

Next morning after eating a full Scottish Breakfast (including Haggis) we caught a train to Leeds. I was in Leeds for about 3 hours while we set up the same event as yesterday before catching a train back to London to do an awards ceremony that evening. While standing on the platform in Leeds I turned round and found my mate Chris was standing next to me - weird huh?

After the awards ceremony I stayed in a hotel in St. Jame's which was nice but I had the housekeeping knocking on my door from 8am when I was trying to have a lie in. After a Jolly nice breakfast I set off to do off site rehearsals at my clients offices for the show on Friday - these included a skit on "Have I got news for you".

Afterwards i headed for the Savoy where the show was the next day and it was 10:30 pm when I finally got finished. We had problems getting a Quick Time movie which had been created on a Mac to play on a PC. We then headed off to find somewhere to eat and ended up in a theatrical's restaurant called Joe Allan's which was nice but they didnt seem to know the meaning of either of Medium rare or French Mustard!!.

Back on site at the Savoy at 6am and I finally got home at 3pm on Friday when I promptly fell asleep on the sofa!! What a week.