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Rohan is sick again. Argh! Still, at least it is enabling me to perfect my chicken soup technique. I made my own stock yesterday. Exciting times :)

Anyhoo. We went to be part of the audience for the first episode of Spicks and Specks on Wednesday. It was awesome fun. We were fortunate, because as the season opener and taped in the middle of the Comedy Festival it was a one-hour comedy special. The guests included Stephen K Amos, David O'Doherty, Kitty Flanagan, and Tripod!

It took a long time; over 2 1/2 hours to film a one-hour special. Fortunately, because the guests were all comedians, they were all constantly "on" and entertaining us during the long breaks to get things set up or sets disassembled. We barely needed the warm-up guy for that, although he was good too.

The studio is small and the set is much shabbier than it looks on TV :) The floor was covered in cords.

Myf was very quiet; Adam Hills is much naughtier off camera than on; Alan Brough was in fine form all the way through, particularly when he was show the Rebecca Whatserface 'Friday' clip for the first time :)

They filmed the closing number first, apparently to capture a high energy level; they had to do the whole thing twice over and then they had to run through it three times from about halfway through. It was fun though :)