We have a good drive, despite the large numbers of people on the roads. We get to Pendennis Castle in time for me to do afternoon interviews and leave at 7pm, hoping to get away from it all at our hotel, only to find that half of the BBC TV crew are staying there as well.TuesdayI spend the day doing interviews, trying to counter the media’s negative view of the eclipse. There will be 19 people staying in our house.Liz and I set off for Falmouth, where we will be staying for the next few days. People start arriving in dribs and drabs for an eclipse party that my eldest daughter is planning. She is very professional and polite, asking sensible questions.

I get home just before midnight.MondayMy wife Liz and I pack frantically. I then drive to Truro to be linked up for an interview with Edwina Currie on her Late Night Curry show on Radio 5 Live. There are about 60 to 70 TV crews setting up in preparation for Wednesday and generally a lot of activity.
I meet up with Philip Turner from CNN to help build up the excitement for the eclipse in a live interview I am being broadcast to 240 countries world-wide. He may appear distracted, but you can bet that he’ll remember you.266A Fulham Road, SW10, London (0171-352 6200) 9pm-2am, pounds 7. Sunday

I will be watching the eclipse on Wednesday from Pendennis Castle, Falmouth I drive there today, arriving at 12 noon. But unlike its bigger brother in Soho, you don’t have to fight to get in.Attend two weeks in succession and you’ll be converted and friends with dozens of people, especially promoter Nick House.

Despite its Thursday night slot, a few hundred regulars in Fulham have made Future Funk at K Bar one of the best attended nights in the capital. DJs shamelessly blast anything that will keep you on the dance floor; it seems to work as a young, stylish and sociable band of models and aspirational clubbers kick off the weekend early.
This particular branch of K Bar retains the strong bar feel that engenders social interaction (equal measures of alcohol and house classics help the night’s success). A Tony Award winner three times, he says that “it all depends on who pisses me off at the Stop & Shop that day. You’ll never see the same show twice.”

Adelphi Theatre, London WC2 (0171-413 1428) 7.30pm. Fierstein will mix musical numbers with political satire, pledging that he will be updating his material until the last minute. For a long time in the early 1980s, he was the only openly gay actor that most people could name. He has appeared in Bullets Over Broadway, Mrs Doubtfire, and more than 70 stage productions.

Now he puts his outspokenness to good use in his new live show, “This Is Not Going To Be Pretty”, which premieres in Britain. Harvey Fierstein, the American writer and star of Torch Song Trilogy, has always been outspoken. His two overriding aims in life were to possess women and compete with gifted men; when he slept with Rousseau’s mistress Therese Le Vasseur, he achieved, as it were, the grand slam of making love to a woman allegedly “possessed” by the most original mind of his age.Johnson may have proved that the pen was mightier than the phallic sword, but in Boswell’s case it was a close-run thing.. Here we surely have the Victor Hugo syndrome, the prolific writer who is also a legendary womaniser.One vulgar wag said that Boswell was fertile both upstairs and downstairs. He even tells us which woman gave him the most pleasure in bed – the dissolute adventuress, forger and perjurer Margaret Caroline Rudd.The hundreds of women Boswell slept with produced no less than 16 separate bouts of gonorrhoea. Such a judgement could be passed on almost any interesting human being.Martin is at his best when dealing with Boswell’s prodigious sexual appetite.