Clown

Not sure if the locals can handle all the excitement coming up here. The circus arrives only a few days after the promises of FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY (all in caps, they're serious) from the Stirling Agricultural Show so there's hardly time to draw breath before the big top is pitched in the very same field.

It might just have been that the rain had soaked me through to my undercrackers and the fact that I was still reeling from the news that one of the UK's most talented, funny and versatile clown princes of anarchic slapstick, and a staple of a generation's comedic intake had died, but that's one fuck off scary looking clown.

The People's Poet is dead.