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I’ve spent much of the evening editing copy and content for our newly revamped Mostly Comedy website , adding photos from many of the past eight and a half years’ worth of shows as I do it. While there’s a fair amount still to be uploaded and changed, the lion’s share of the work has already been done by Mostly’s long-term cohort James Hingley - doorman at many of our early shows - who orchestrated its massive redesign. It’s testament to how good a job he’s done that large chunks don't need to be touched; a very unusual thing for someone as pernickety as me to say. We're hugely grateful for the amount of thought he’s put into it, and the fact he even did it in the first place, particularly as he laid down a lot of the initial work before even mentioning he was doing it. It’s lovely that he cared enough about the club to help without even being asked. It will be great to have a site that will eventually do justice to how the club's grown beyond our wildest expec...

The Mostly Comedy website is about to have a massive overhaul, and not a moment too soon, I say. The redesign was done by long-term Doggett & Ephgrave colleague and ex-Mostly doorman James Hingley, who’s done an excellent job of tidying things up while making it more interesting to look at. For a long while, we’ve let it slide (though not as much as the D&E site, which hasn’t been updated for years), so it will be nice to be back in action, making the most of the database of photographs we have since the club’s formation while also making it easier for us to sell more tickets; I’m amazed we’ve consistently sold as well as we have, when our website is often people’s first port-of-call and yet the last place to find the latest information. The best bit about the website’s reworking is it will enable Glyn and I to update information easily from the comfort of our own homes without much additional effort. Previously, Glyn would have to do it, y...

Thank God the About My Area website isn’t . It would be awful if it was. We don’t need a site devoted to something as filthy as that. I don’t mean filthy in a literal sense, as I have excellent personal hygiene. Ask anyone. Every time I hear its name (which is regularly, as it often comes up in conversation) I have a little giggle to myself. This sometimes becomes a snigger, then a chuckle, then a chortle. If I titter then I’ve gone full circle. That sounds like slang for an 'area' and we’re not having that. "Titter ye not". Whoever came up with the concept for About My Area didn’t consider the anatomical connotations. Perhaps there aren’t any. It could just be me. It wouldn’t be the first time.