The man himself

In short, Kevin and I had a wonderful time at Mr Cleese's birthday celebration. He was just lovely, chatting with us (and the other nine people who were there) for a couple of hours, giving us cake and allowing us to blurble at him about the silly hats which were a requirement.

I know I promised a photo of the silly hat I wore (a baseball cap with an alleged stuffed seagull, which turned out to be a stuffed dove instead) but I'm afraid we didn't get one. You may still be able to see it though, if the video of us all in our silly hats turns up on the website. One of the fun parts was that, due to the very small number of people present, it really was mostly a sitting-round-and-chatting session, with the added bonus that as more and more people turned up, John went round the table introducing the present fans with the newly-arrived. So I've been introduced by John Cleese about half a dozen times today :-)

You should really read Kevin's post for more details, plus the guess-the-major-Hollywood-Star-whom-we-spotted-in-Leicester-Square (and-whose-head-Kevin-managed-to-photograph-the-back-of) competition :-)