This week I'll be frantically trying to catch up on all my work having had so much of last week off.

Today I've begun with trying to fight with my Outlook to get my emails and clear through the big pile of paperwork and post which has built up.

I also managed to pop into the garden and pick many, many pears which I hope this week to turn into jam as well as pear vodka and gin.

By 5pm I've had as much as I can cope with for one day and we head off to Quo Vadis to take advantage of their 50% off food offer which is still running and then onto a comedy club to see Margaret Cho.

The food at Quo Vadis (Squash soup with Blewit mushrooms, Plaice with brown shrimp and lemon sauce and Burnt Cream to finish) is, as always, fantastic and by the time we leave we're more in the mood to go home to sleep the food off but onwards we head to the comedy club.

The opening act, John Roberts, was unfortunately dreadful. It is a sad fact that sometimes American comedians don't alter their act at all when they venture over to the UK and here was a fine example of that. Impressions of people the audience wouldn't know plus simply changing wigs and excessively swearing isn't a magic formula for comedy.

Margaret Cho though was different. I have read much about her but never seen her comedy. She was just as rude, if not more, than John Roberts but with her extremely personal stories, impressions of her mum and mocking of herself she was very funny and we headed home with big smiles ready to sleep off our meal.