Ugh!  I've been so busy lately that there's barely been time to write my own book much less this diary.  All good things, though.  Yesterday, for example, I did an event for an excellent group of students at St Christopher's School, Hove, especially the young man who volunteered and proved a very good sport (you know who you are).

I've also been working on something which I can announce next week (but not before), and I've seen three average to mediocre plays this week (England People Very Nice at the National, Plague Over England on the West End, and Duet For One at the Almeida), none of which bear much further comment.

But most importantly, I've picked up the first press copies of The Ask and the Answer.  It's beautiful.  Wait 'til you see it (on 4 May, when it comes out).  More, much more, anon.