It’s Friday …

Another week, another Goodies show (ok, so it’s less than a week since the last one, but it sounded better). This one was in Birmingham, not my favourite city in the world, but the one I know best.

I think by now I’m starting to know the show quite well, but even so every time I see it it’s different – the audiences react to different things, the ad-libs and the fact that I always forget which bit comes next make it all so new and exciting each time. Although Tim did accuse us of laughing before the jokes when we spoke to him at the stage door!

We had front row seats (again), at the extreme left hand side facing the stage. We were so far to the left that I could see into the wings and spent a good part of the time before the show trying to identify the silhouettes that were walking in to view (I did manage to make Clair laugh by saying “there’s Graeme, I recognise the cat on his head”!)

The show was as good as ever and the audience were very responsive. It was great to see so many kids in the audience, some of them quite young (I won’t say too young because I watched the show on the telly at the age of four or five). There were two girls sitting behind us who were probably about six or seven and they laughed and giggled their way through the show probably as much as we did. Lots of the kids were hanging around the stage door after the show wanting autographs and photographs and there was a lovely moment when Tim was having his picture taken with two small children (I was concerned that it didn’t look comfortable for him having to bend down that far) when the mum told them to smile and Tim said “I am”!!

Highlights of the show were spotting Tim singing along to Grease Cycling, puppet Bill attempting to scare Tim and Tim fighting back, and we didn’t get the chance to better our clip request from Southend as someone further down the front row shouted out for Tim in a dress! We’ll save it for another time …

After the show there was a large crowd at the stage door, and as usual we let most of them ask for autographs before us. I asked Tim and Graeme to sign my new LWT series DVD. It’s great when you don’t have to tell them who it’s to (although I don’t know how Graeme remembers everyone’s name – he must have a great memory). I also got hugs from both. Tim gave the best and longest hug ever and afterwards said that it was the best bit. Graeme’s hug was great too, and while we were hugging he said how good it was to see me again and I replied that it was good to see him too (what a great and original reply! But at least I can manage to put words together and form a sentence now!!). he also asked if we would be turning up at any more shows, to which I replied “erm … well … maybe …”. That’s my attempt at being evasive!

As it was easter, and as Graeme had been commenting on the food when we were all at Southend, we’d bought them both easter eggs. We’d had messages iced on to them – Tim’s said “Hello Cheeky” and Graeme’s “Ungelievagle Genius” (apart from the ‘e’ had fallen off genius). When we were getting them out of the bag they both looked a little bemused as to what we had for them, but they both appeared to like them. Tim commented on the fact that the chocolate was ‘extra thick’ and took it, in good humour, as a personal comment. But chocolate doesn’t come in extra cuddly!!