Things need to change. Many, many things need to change, in fact, but the world is so large, and the list so long, that I'm prioritising the things I can actually do something about.

Number one: I need to go to more interesting things. Now I already do a good line in interesting sporty things, and the occasional interesting newsy thing, but cultural things are I'm afraid a dead loss. About three years ago I went to the Museum of London of my own accord, on my own, and that was probably the last proper outing my brain received.

The solution is to go and see Complicite, recommended by my lovely friend Lucy May, who (prior to becoming a broadcast journalist) was a dancer and general arty person. She retains a commanding knowledge of all things arts and highly recommends Complicite, who are performing at the Barbican til early October.

From what I can gather I'll be in for a sort of extended story told through the medium of dance, where everyone is aware of each other's space apparently, which puts me in mind of a shoal of fish. Here is the blurb from the booking page:

"This is a story about connections between ideas, cultures and times. In London a man attempts to unravel the secrets of his lover. In Bangalore a woman collapses on a train. In Cambridge in 1914 Englishman GH Hardy seeks to comprehend the ideas of the Indian prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan."

Cripes. I don't get that at the ice hockey. I'm already full of eager anticipation.

Oh and thing number two on my list of things to change is the amount of sport I play, which currently stands at nil. Speaking of ice hockey, it's on my list of potentials, although I need to learn to skate first (and thereby conquer the fear of skating I've had since crocking my ankle on a school trip nearly a decade a go). It's either skating or rowing but at least with skating there's less chance of sinking, unless global warming really does kick in.