Paul Heaton at the O2. Nice.

It was the end of what felt like a very long first week back after half-term.

When I got in it was straight out for the first headtorch run of the winter. A 4ish mile loop of the village.

In other news…

The latest Gotts Street Park album arrived and made it onto the turntable following various toing and froing with Royal Mail.

It felt like a full-on hectic day at school today. Stayed late to get some marking done.

‘Strange Pictures’ by Uketsu

Really liked this. Interesting, strange and very clever.

Read it.

Mark Simmons.

Playhouse Theatre.

Back to the Playhouse Theatre for some comedy with Mark Simmons’ ‘Jest to Impress’ tour.

We saw Mark Simmons a couple of years ago – he is a master at the one-liner.

‘I love the olympics, my friend and I invented a new type of relay baton; we’ll, he came up with the idea, I ran with it.’

It’s Wednesday, which means swimming at the end of the day. I found it hard work like I always do. Technique needs work!