On a much more cheerful note, I picked up my journalist accreditation at lunchtime today so I'm officially a reviewer again. He's agreed to all but two of my wishlist, saying hungrily that he wished more people wanted to review theatre rather than endless comedy shows. At least one of the two that he didn't agree to looks turgid so I feel it was a lucky escape.

And with a gentle 'remember who you're writing for', i.e. stop being such a middle-class ivory-towered wannabe intellectual - in print anyway, he sent me on my way.