Arts

Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure

Just go see it. Now isn't the time for a complex review, for making clever analogies or picking out particularly sparkling moments in the show. Now is the time to make a personal recommendation: go see Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure.

This is the first time I've ever been to a theatre locally, and it paid off big-time. It was a wonderful way to take my mind off this afternoon's events. At just over two hours it's a long show, but masterfully paced: you really don't notice the time pass.

Dave Gorman's a fantastic storyteller, and his delivery takes you on a ride through the universal set of human emotions. This is the kind of story you want to tell other people, and somehow through hearing the retelling it becomes your own.

There are still some dates left on the tour. You'll be glad you went.

Personal

On HGVs and narrow lanes

I will now introduce the technical term, Oik. It's a placeholder noun for persons unknown that have generated feelings of mild frustration. It's used like this:

Some oik has gone and rammed their lorry into the wall at the bottom of my garden.

Tonight this is not a theoretical example. Some oik has indeed had a good go at widening the road behind my house. They failed. Presumably they damaged their HGV, but made off before talking with anyone. What's left are a few bits of wall now reducing the width of the road, and serious damage to the wall between my garden and next-door's.