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The walk had been arranged by Nick Banks and Rib Ticklers Comedy Club and is in aid of the Children and Young Peoples Kidney Fund, which helps kidney disease suffers. You can make a donation to this good cause by visiting their Just Giving Page. Go on you know you want to.

For More information on the walk go to www.comedywalk2013.co.uk

About Hadrians Wall.
Hadrians Walls runs from East to West along the North of England and was built as a defence by the Romans to protect them from angry axe wielding Scotsmen around AD122. Many of the forts and ruins are still intact and make great places to visit.

I'll be doing lots of tweeting and photographing on the walk, so you can see where we are. You can follow the official twitter feed at @COMEDYWALK2013

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This week has gone all industrial. I am at The Bolton Bleachworks on Thursday and The Skelmersdale Engine Rooms on Saturday. Next week I am doing a show down a mine*.

* I am not really doing a show down a mine.

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It has rained all day in Scotland and I am getting wet on the Royal mile. I also need to buy new batteries for the telly remote control.

At night I saw Paul Daniels and Debi McGee crossing the road. He was wearing a panama hat.

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On the evening there was the launch party. Lots of people were socially networking in the room and it got a bit cramped. There were lots of men with long hair, beards, glasses and hats on who looked like they were in disguise but weren't.
There were one or two well known comedians and many more I did not know.  I decided it was much easier to sit down on a small stool and watch instead of taking part so I did. A lot of people were trying to be seen but not be noticed which is hard to explain but this is what they were doing. Some people looked a me as I was sitting on the small stool on my own looking at them. One person said hey had seen me ans liked my stuff. I met with some Manchester comedians and we queued up for a free hog roast sandwich with apple sauce and crackling.

Later on I got excited when I saw Charlie Chuck sitting in a the corner of a room. He is ace and I said hello to him. I will go to his show.

On the way home I saw Terry Alderton and Tim Vine talking outside a chip shop and waved at them even though they do not know me.

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While I am on tour with the one man star wars show I am still doing videos. The sound goes up and down and there is a bit of windy noise, sorry about that.

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The Tyne theatre is a lovely theatre and there are loads of photos back stage showing you the history of it. I wanted an ice cream tub in the interval, but could not find the woman, then when I did I realised my money was in my other trousers in the dressing room and I was wearing my stage trousers.
Wearing stage trousers is advice I picked up from a proper actor who does stand up comedy. He said it is not good to have bulky looking pockets on the stage, or people will look at them and stop thinking about your jokes and think about what is in your pockets instead.I have taken this advice, but not his other advice about getting a watch that vibrates so you know how long you have been on the stage. I think it is better to know how long 20 or 30 minutes is in your head, which you can do by standing still until you think 20 minutes have past, then looking at your watch.

After Newcastle we have set off on our Scottish leg. It is a leg of four parts and tonight is Glenrothes. I do not know to to proper pronounce the name yet, but will wiat to find some who looks nice enough to ask. A man is shouting at his dog.

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I am on tour with  'One Man Star Wars'. I am doing a blog of the tour. This is the blog.It is good to see Charlie, he is wearing the same shirt as last year but he says it is not. Our first show is at Gravesend. I have met Richard. Richard is a stormtrooper. The show is good, but not as good as the next night in Bury St Edmunds. This show is proper good. I got a round of applause for walking up to the microphone. I had to explain that the show proper had not started yet.

On day three in Worcester I decided to throw away the yoghurts and chicken I have brought with me, they had been sitting in the tour car in the hot sun for three days and the foil and plastic lids had expanded so much they looked like they might explode.

I am now in Dunstable drinking tea out of a pot noodle tub. The cupboards of the green room are full of pint glasses, but no cups, so they are glass-boards. The sat-nav what was in the car could not tell us where the venue was, and took us down a back lane instead. Forunetly I had borrowed my nanna's AA Book of towns which had a little map of Dunstable in it and got us there in no time, even though it was printed in 1979. Maps are great. The AA book of towns a great book has loads and loads of information in it and I will be learning and reading aloud in the car to Charlie as we travel so we get a lot of culture as we go.

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It's time for another playtime.

I will be at the Lass O'Gowrie in Manchester to try out lots of new things and idea what are all part of the show going to Edinburgh later in the year. This will be the last playtime before the Edinburgh Previews in June and July. There will be a guest who is Vic McGlynn doing some stuff too.

It is a free night, but there are not many seats, so get on the seating list by emailing thelassevents@gmail.com

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