Resting on his Laureates

August's theatre visit is booked for the seventh. £18 a ticket and no booking fee; not to be sneered at.

Peter, naturally, knew Dario Fo and Franca Rame from the Riverside. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1997 was awarded to Dario Fo "who emulates the jesters of the Middle Ages in scourging authority and upholding the dignity of the downtrodden".

Of course it was. Nothing about Mr Gill surprises me any more.