Okay, you might be put off by the title if you’re not a Doctor Who fan, but “Moths Ate My Doctor Who Scarf” is on it’s final run of dates this year, and I urge you to see it. Why?

Well, because:

1. It’s bloody funny
2. It’ll make you cry as well
3. It stars my old mate Toby Hadoke
4. The BBC Radio version of the show got nominated for a Sony Award last year, and…

5. I directed it, produced the original version and created the format

Toby just had a massive success with it in LA at the world’s biggest Dr Who convention, and apart from doing a few more dates across the UK, will be taking it to New Zealand in May. You can more info on the show here: Toby Hadoke

(Scroll down and you’ll see my name on the original poster – also see what kind of company sponsored it. A world first!)

Or take a look at some of these clips of the tour (rumour has it a proper DVD may be recorded soon…)

Toby will become rather more famous very soon. If you’re ever in Manchester on a Tuesday, you can still see him for peanuts at his 10-year old comedy club. Same acts you get at The Comedy Store for about 1/5th of the price. See Manchester Comedy.

I’m looking forward to Gail and Natalie Hannaford coming to the house this fine Saturday. Since we met last summer, I’ve been advising them on their marketing strategy (as well as being good friends). Gail publishes a Midlands-focused wedding magazine, and her daughter Natalie runs wedding events in the area.

Recently, Natalie sold out one event using Facebook marketing principles I showed her and last weekend she realised that 97% of her bride attendees were there only because of receiving an email from us via “Gails List” – an email list of over 7500 brides to be that is proving a massive hit. This list is taking wedding marketing to new heights. In Natalie’s case, she told me yesterday that she spent about £400 on local newspaper advertising and this generated ony 3 attendees! The other 97 all came from the emailshot!

Three months ago, these email addresses were all sat in a box in Gails office written on pieces of paper!

Natalie and Gail both attended my Internet Marketing clinic back in October. This is what they thought:

To get more information on how I can help your business online, go to this Internet Marketing link.

Long before internet marketing, long before I stumbled across the skip hire industry…just basically a long time ago, I achieved my childhood dream of becoming an RAF pilot. I am sporadically learning to fly helicopters (hence the picture in the blog header of the Schweizer 300DCi, but this is me back in 1987:

Mark Attwood the young RAF pilot

I actually resigned from the RAF because I woke up and realised that I simply didn’t want to kill another human being, whatever the circumstances. The mindless slaughter of millions of innocent people I have seen in the 20 years since I left in bullshit wars like Iraq and Afganistan has proven me right.