27th June, 2009 - Flinging Flans at the Bard

I’ve been listening to Lenny Henry on Radio 4 today, on a long drive back from St Andrews. He was chatting away about his recent experience playing Othello on the West End. I hadn’t realised that he had done a BA course on the Open University recently. He was apparently inspired by his mum’s death several years ago to take on projects that would have made her proud.


I felt a bit guilty when I heard that last bit. I am not sure if my mum would necessarily have been proud of my own endeavours. For example showing a profit of $83 at internet poker over a two year spell is not exactly something that I expect my mum to be waxing lyrical about to the massed ranks of the cherubim and seraphim. I also suspect that she would not be pleased about the state of my front garden.

I am resolved to be more like Lenny. But first... some poker!