Arrived in London

Yesterday I arrived in London, and I'm staying with Spike's youngest daughter, Jane. On my first evening here, I went to a committee meeting in a nearby house with Jane and her sister Sile, to talk about a proposed statue of Spike that the locals want to erect. It is a life-size and very life-like statue of Spike sitting on a bench - I saw the model and it's brilliant. People will be able to sit next to him and get their photo taken or just talk to him. The bench is decorated with references to his life, such as fairies, elephants (from his childhood in India), soldiers and books. The committee hope to raise the money to get the statue made and erected by the end of next year. They have people like Sir Paul McCartney, Michael Parkinson and Joanna Lumley as patrons. I'm meeting my crew and working on the script and production schedule this week. On Friday we will be filming an interview with comedian Eddie Izzard in a theatre in Soho, and by the beginning of next week we'll be full steam ahead.