I HOPE everyone's got their knickers and underpants over their outer garments and are hooting their red noses for charity on the daftest day of the year.

Comic Relief has come round again and captured the imagination of the country -- the Leigh area included. I thought it might have run its course by now, but no chance. Four times I have been in the Oxfam shop, and every time they had run out of red noses and were awaiting new deliveries.

I hope the eighth big day does help say pants to poverty, but I can't say I'm a big fan of such events.

I admire gutsy people like crackpot Heather Tither, Golborne Asda's 29-year-old events co-ordinator who will spend the day sitting in a bath of mushy peas, and Debbie Simpkin, 28, of Rugby Road, Leigh, who is having her brown shoulder-length hair shaved off at Tofts.

And I'll give my bit, but I'm sorry to say I certainly won't be tuning in to our heroes of comedy who will be trying too hard taking part in cringeworthy frolics and making bigger fools than usual of themselves on TV tonight.

Sorry folks, miserable thing that I am, I find such things unfunny, tedious and boring.