What am I doing right now, I hear you say?
Well, I’ll tell you – I’m trying to think up (Skelton speak for steal) as many jokes as I can for the opening event of this year’s crime writing festival in sunny Grantown-on-Spey.
For the past three years we have presented a new Carry on Sleuthing on the Friday night but this year is different.
Letitia Luvibod, the real-life alter ego of the fictional Caro Ramsay, has a subsequent appointment and has managed to avoid the show this year.
Frankly, we couldn’t do it without her. She told us.
So, Michael J. Malone and I have put our heads together. It was quite painful and I don’t know why we did it.
Anyway, the upshot is the opener this year will be a pot pourri of comedy. And if you have some pot, it might help.
Rather confidently called You’ll Die Laughing, the show will feature the aforementioned Mr Malone and myself, along with special guests.
I’m scribbling away right now. Well, not right now because I’m typing this, but you know what I mean. However, the only thing I can say with any measure of confidence is that the show will feature a Sherlock Holmes parody.
We think.
But the festival as a whole is super exciting. OK, no Caro Ramsay this year but we do have Theresa Talbot, Lesley Kelly, Margaret Kirk, Hania Allen, Olga Wojtas, Gillian Galbraith, Denzil Meyrick as well as, of course, Michael and your current correspondent.
All the events take place in the Pagoda, which is a superb venue, and the festival kicks off on Friday November 1.
Now – back to writing some original comedy.
I say, I say, I say….my dog has no nose…
I’m laughing already.