Hello everyone.

We know many of you are eager for an update on the Talking Bottom book so we're here at last, hello! The nation’s sworn in (sworn at!) a new monarch since we last contacted you lovely lovely lovely pledgers and we absolutely understand that you are giving us a well-earned Richie stare wondering where your bit of halibut is.

We aren’t keeping our heads down (“I heard that!”) without good reason. The book is teetering on the edge of being ready to crash into Unbound’s editing team’s hands. That process will take some time as well, but we aren’t dragging our heels intentionally. We don’t want to jinx it but we are waiting for an answer on an interview request with a certain star of a certain sitcom who has recently written their own brilliant book (out later this year!) for which they will be doing loads of publicity to promote. It's entirely possible that it won't happen, we are just a poor sad fan podcast, which means we'll have delayed for months for no benefit but, on balance, we thought it was worth the wait for the potential uniquely incredible insights an interview with the man himself will bring. We really don’t want to fill you (or ourselves) with false hope BUT we would loathe ourselves forever if we make a slight miscalculation on the timing and bag the quotes of a lifetime AFTER it's gone to the printers.

We really must express our continued and sincere thanks for all of your support and patience. Writing a book around our busy crappy little lives has been an effing vertical learning curve. We are going to be so proud to finally unleash it on the world once it’s ready to put on its very best smoking jacket and do it to you all.

We promise that you great mates will be the first to know when we have a publishing date to share!

Remorse remorse remorse, guilt guilt guilt, whirlwind of self-loathing… and come the book launch pub crawl we’ll all buy you a drink!

Paul, Mat and Angela

xxx