Snow finally comes to Buckinghamshire just in time for Robert’s rustic jaunt to the BBC Written Archives in Caversham, Berkshire. One of his favourite parts of any book. Lovely people.

That wonderfully talented actress and wit Sheila Steafel has set up her own website in light of writing her new volume of autobiography ‘When Harry Met Sheila’: detailing her marriage to Harry H. Corbett. As a child, Robert’s affections were split between Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah-Jane Smith and Sheila in ‘The Ghosts of Motley Hall’. Happy memories. The site is well worth a peek.

Wonderfully exciting news as BBC2 have announced an 8-episode repeat season of ‘The Goodies’. From 22nd to 30th December, an episode a day will be screened. It is expected that ‘The Goodies and the Beanstalk’ will be repeated on Christmas Eve thirty seven years to the day of its first broadcast.

A wonderful time with actor, writer, producer, director and all-round good egg Paul Cole which started off at the BBC Club and ended up at the Annual General Meeting of the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society. A fun evening made even more enjoyable by bumping in to Dodie Smith’s charming heir.

Robert is knee-deep in research for his new comedy biography and has enjoyed anecdote-stuffed chats with some of his all-time favourite writing partnerships. Today is a recovery day from an evening in the Southampton Arms with Terry Jones and Michael Palin. There will also be lots of telly watching. Good times.

The long wait for a proper repeat season of ‘The Goodies’ continues but at least BBC2 marked the 40th anniversary of the show with a second repeat of the 2005 reunion clip-fest ‘Return of the Goodies.’

Off to the very near-by Limelight theatre in Aylesbury for Robin Ince’s hilarious Bad Book Club. One of the circuits most inspired and likeable stand-ups, Robin’s nerdish devotion to the worse in literature is affectionate, funny and stimulating. Robert is now even more delighted to own a signed copy of Don Estelle’s autobiography and is on the look-out for any killer crab literature.

It was 40 years ago today that Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie presented ‘The Goodies’ for the first time. The super super chaps three helped out beef-less beef-eaters and British comedy was never quite the same again. As well as giving that first classic episode a spin on DVD, Robert also started working on his new comedy biography… nearly 2,000 words before lunch. That was a relief!

So many places Robert had to be today: at ‘The Goodies’ 40th anniversary reunion at the Watershed theatre, Bristol. The annual Missing Belived Wiped trawl at the National Film Theatre and Valerie Leon’s resurrected performance of her one-woman show.

A hilarious North London dinner with Terry Jones and a chance meeting with Robert Wynne-Simmons – the scriptwriter for the seminal ‘Blood on Satan’s Claw’.