As regular readers will know I seldom whinge(!), but as I paid my TV licence fee this week the thought did cross my mind as to what I was paying it for.

I don’t watch soaps, I have little interest in watching football, I don’t like reality shows or anything with ‘celebrity’ in the title and there are far too many cookery programmes on. I do however enjoy Taggart, Rebus, New Tricks and the odd comedy show so I guess £140 a year or whatever it was is still a good deal. After all the money to pay Jonathan Ross has to come from somewhere.

Now the big new Drama Group wise this week was the marriage of the divine Emily. Rob is a very lucky man to sign up this lady and I am sure he knows it. Anyway my congratulations go to them both and I wish them many happy years together.

On to things dramatic, the Pussycat Dolls who now run the group have announced that we hope to have a second entry into the ODN Festival being held in June. Our own Barbara Douglas will direct Susi Dalton and Mike Lacey in a play yet to be determined. Our other ODN offering, Kill Jill directed by Sarah Curran, continues its run of good rehearsals, as does The Memory of Water, our production in May.

Remember last week when Chuffer pranged his car. Things have gone from bad to worse as the result of his one-man shunt, I am told, has written his car off and the one he hit.

Poor old guy felt rough last night and couldn’t make Emily’s evening do, so things must be bad. I imagine he took a turn for the worst when he got his revised premium from his insurance company.

I like a pub quiz. I admit it, yes I do, but this is getting ridiculous. This week apart from the regular Sunday quiz we are taking part in one on Wednesday and I have taken to being quizmaster for one on Thursday. Luckily I pulled out of one last Friday, as these things can become habit forming.

As the economic ruin of this once magnificent country intensifies under this disastrous government let’s reflect on what we have learned in the last two millennia, Evidently very little, the following was written by Cicero in 55BC "The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance."

What has this to do with amateur dramatics-well nothing really.

My medical mate, I’ll call him Doctor Dave, had slept with one of his patients and felt guilty all day long. No matter how much he tried to forget about it, he couldn't. The guilt and sense of betrayal were overwhelming. But every now and then he'd hear an internal reassuring voice in his head that said: "Dave, don't worry about it. You aren't the first medical practitioner to sleep with one of their patients and you won't be the last... And you're single. Just let it go."

But invariably another voice in his head would bring him back to reality.

whispering.....

Dave….

Dave….

…You’re a vet Dave………