The morning after Jane’s birthday (this morning) Kenton and I went down to Uni to visit the library- and then something happened that I think can only really happen when you’re a student. The trip to the library quickly escalated…

Whilst there Kent got an email from Jane- apparently the internationally recognised comedian and new political figure Eddie Izzard was visiting out Union at 3pm that very afternoon to talk politics with the Sheffield Labour MP and the President of the National Union of Students in front of a live audience. We promptly headed off to get tickets.

Once at the box office we discovered that tickets were to be sold on the door on a first come first served basis. There was still over an hour to go, but we didn’t want to stray to far because we would need to be fairly close to the front of the inevitable que that would form to ensure that we did get tickets. If only there was somewhere close by that we could wait… We went to Bar1.

On arriving we soon realised that today was in fact St George’s Day, and Bar1 was celebrating in style. Outside on the sun drenched patio was a BBQ, inside they were showing continual screenings of iconic British movies and TV shows. And everywhere were people dressed in the England flag, or in red and white face paint, or even just sat in a red and white bowler hat. We would wait here.

We were soon joined by Jane, and we were able to join the que to see Eddie Izzard.

He was brilliant as unusal, and the talk gave the audience plenty to think bout when deciding who to vote for in the coming general election.

After this I headed back to the station to finally come home. On the way I first bumped into my old friend Sean, her persuaded me to join him for a quick visit to Subway. In this time, Izzard and a procession of Labour supporters must have overtaken us, because as we walked down West Street we found ourselves once again face to face with the King of Comedy. I tell you, only at University!