A Gloomy Poet at the Muffin Man: Review and Photos

Here’s a lovely review of my performance as the Gloomy Poet at the Muffin Man in Cheltenham on Thursday night (from the Gloucestershire Echo online).  It’s enough to put a smile on a person’s face.

(Hidden extra: if you click forward on the photo above the article, there’s an excellent one of some of the audience looking miserable, coincidentally under a poster saying “HAPPY DAY”.)

http://www.gloucestershireecho.co.uk/Stroud-s-Jones-Poet-Doom-brings-Cheltenham/story-25914246-detail/story.html                                    

And here are some photos of me looking thoroughly gloomy (while being unwittingly upstaged by my own hair) taken before the show by Daniel Day for the Gloucestershire Echo.  I have rarely looked more miserable!

http://theslowphoto.tumblr.com/post/109103293002/the-poet-of-doom

Many thanks to both Aled and Daniel, and to Anna Saunders for putting the night on.  
And, finally, here is an entertaining write-up of my (so-far-frankly-tentative) 'misery tour' of happiness hotspots from the WriteOutLoud website:  
http://www.writeoutloud.net/public/blogentry.php?blogentryid=46417