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Maggie Irving
5 days ago2 min read
Butts are a pain...
...in the butt! Especially cigarette butts. People are still tossing these dirty dog ends on the floor. Found out recently that they...
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Maggie Irving
Jan 273 min read
Recommended dose?
Image: Clowning as Baroness Elsa at The Tate Modern (2009) A slice of humour for health! Have cake and wear it... Dose of Therapeutic...
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Maggie Irving
Jan 163 min read
It's 2025 - What the FOG?
I was feeling pretty tired, low... ... and much like a rubbery, deflated birthday balloon that hangs limply, undetected, behind the sofa...
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Maggie Irving
Dec 19, 20242 min read
All GREAT things come to an end...
Endings means it's ALL about the NEW... 2024 is drawing to a close. Endings… It has been a year of endings, however, this often means...
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Maggie Irving
Dec 16, 20242 min read
“The people, the laughs – the opportunity.”
Harry Venning SAFE to laugh, play and be well... SAFE Foundation - Stop Abuse For Everyone, is set to benefit from some of the...
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Maggie Irving
Dec 5, 20242 min read
Pain... and Play!
Been a few disappointments and dark times recently – personal and business, where I have been laid low. But beginning to bounce back,...
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Maggie Irving
Oct 14, 20242 min read
Always half drunk - how about you?
I have half-drunk mugs of tea throughout the day. Do you? Is the answer to make only half a mug of tea – or would that mean I only drink...
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Maggie Irving
Oct 3, 20242 min read
What will you be full of?
A bit of a blip... Over 20 years ago, a pro comedian told me, you need a hundred gigs to feel at ease (he actually said, “couldn’t care...
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Maggie Irving
Sep 16, 20242 min read
Too early for the C word?
What were you thinking? I have scheduled next January’s, a stand-up comedy course! Not normally one for looking ahead and being so...
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Maggie Irving
Sep 2, 20242 min read
Bitten by the bug...
Have you ever been bitten the bug? My enthusiasm for teaching and performing comedy has never waned – or caused rashes / involuntary...
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Maggie Irving
Aug 22, 20242 min read
I'm having a facelift!
Not me! My house is having a facelift – hurrah! It is now cloaked in lime-based mortar so no more leaks. Hurrah! My finances took a hit...
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Maggie Irving
Jul 22, 20242 min read
BOLD BRAVE and BEAUTIFUL!
Keep up the good work! Practice, practice, practice if you want to improve. Improve what? Anything! The Olympic participants do it and so...
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Maggie Irving
Jul 11, 20243 min read
A Magical World of Manifestation!
Who or what will you be? Welcome to the magical world of manifestations - storms; falling in love in the blink of an eye and crafting a...
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Maggie Irving
Jun 24, 20243 min read
Nice Pare!
Comedy writing isn’t about writing jokes with a pre-set joke formula. What is vital is that we open up and share our thoughts - have a...
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Maggie Irving
Jun 13, 20243 min read
Au bord de la mer...
Surprise, surprise! (Insert image / vocals of the late Cilla Black for a day-long earworm 😂) I love a day punctuated by surprises; it’s...
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Maggie Irving
Jun 3, 20242 min read
Red and yellow and pink and green, orange...
Only 31 days to a new government... Well, who knows? There are so many parties – Greens, Blues, Reds, Yellows etc. Maybe we should have a...
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Maggie Irving
May 23, 20242 min read
Flippin' Pain!
The Stuff of Comedy Trauma, pain and tragedy can be the stuff of comedy, after all, they say time + tragedy = comedy. But not always?...
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Maggie Irving
May 16, 20241 min read
Statistically Speaking...
My amazing mum is 94.5... In 2022, the estimated population of England and Wales aged 90 years and over grew by 2.1% compared with 2021 -...
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Maggie Irving
May 2, 20242 min read
Pringles, cows and murder!
Women! Women! Women! More women than ever before are coming to my stand up comedy workshops. Hurrah. And they are brilliant – as are the...
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Maggie Irving
Apr 15, 20241 min read
GENESIS - not the band - but of comedy!
Monday! New Beginnings... My new stand up comedy course starts on Tuesday 16 April. It’s for comedy virgins and for comedians who want to...
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