Janey Godley’s Blog

Award-winning Blog, running since 2004, which provides an astoundingly honest, candid and sometimes jaw-dropping insight into stand-up comic and best-selling author Janey Godley's extraordinary collection of domestic crises, marital tiffs, horrific nightmares, romantic interludes, oddball travels, meetings with ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’ people with occasional hilarious incidents. ‘Not politically correct’ ‘Not normal’ ‘Sexually explicit’ ‘Verbally explicit’ ‘Highly addictive’.

My First Marriage Proposal…

I was 16 and it was 1977, the year of punk in the UK , the year the Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee. It was 27 th September and I was standing outside the Palaceum Bar in my home town of Shettleston in Glasgow ’s East End . It was bitterly cold, frost was settling on the...