Arthur Smith
Arthur Smith
doubt few provides time
The Bible has no doubt had much influence in its time, but it provides very few laughs. None, in fact.
author weighs
The book may be garbage, but if it weighs in at a kilo or more, I stand before its author in awe.
brutally last time until versus
This time it was much more intense. Last year, the contestants were kind of 'us versus Gordon' right up until the end - this was brutally competitive right from the beginning.
rain guy kind
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
fashion men bothered
Obviously I am not bothered about men's fashion - is anyone, apart from Jonathan Ross?
falling-in-love garden long
If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.
lunch week monte-carlo
I couldn't really see the point of having lunch unless it started at 1:00 and ended a week later in Monte Carlo.
scary important ongoing
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
reading exercise night
The best way to prepare for a night out with a Shakespearean tragedy is to do a bit of reading up in the afternoon, eat a light supper - perhaps Welsh rarebit - and then arrive early to do some stretching exercises in the foyer before curtain-up.
funny fall swimming
The history of the relationship between comedy and swimming is short indeed. Of course it is always funny when someone falls into water, but that's about it.
reading home play
Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.
book tuscany excellent
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'
art
I've always been interested in art.
fall play half
I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.