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28 days later   Dateline Monday 31st August 2015 The last day of the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.   In previous years I haven’t bothered going through on the Monday and today I saw why, the place was dead!   … Continue reading →

Nearly There It’s the last Sunday of the Fringe and quite a few of the performers had finished their shows on Saturday Night. In previous years, despite the fact the Fringe always finishes on Monday, I would also finish up … Continue reading →

Karen Koren and The Gilded Balloon Congratulations to Karen Koren who has been awarded the Fosters Comedy Award – Panel Prize, which recognizes her huge contribution to The Edinburgh Festival Fringe as the founder of The Gilded Balloon.       … Continue reading →

The Best Things in Life are Free! It’s Friday and we have now entered the final weekend of the Fringe. As you are all no doubt aware, I am doing my show at The Beehive Inn on The Grassmarket and … Continue reading →

Interesting, the people you meet Whilst giving out flyers on the Grassmarket, you meet all sorts of people from everywhere and have conversations about anything and everything. Today I met a Scottish couple who live in Kuala Lumpur and when … Continue reading →

Another Rude Awakening Given my gargantuan exertions and poor culinary choices on Tuesday, I never got out of my kip until midday and this is unusual for me as I normally get up fairly early in the day despite working … Continue reading →

Getting Near the Finish Line It has now caught up with me, I’m exhausted. As I write this blog I am totally spent, I did not get back from Edinburgh till 3am early Wednesday morning as I was performing at … Continue reading →

Another Fringe Monday Excuses, excuses! All I heard on the street today were statements about pickings being thin, not enough people about or I may have to pull the show, etc, etc. A lot of performers don’t just do the … Continue reading →

There’s a big wide world out there Sometimes you forget that there’s more to life than The Fringe, right at this precise moment I cannot for the life of me imagine what can be more important, but I’m sure there … Continue reading →

Spotted After the show tonight we had a couple of drinks in the Beehive Inn with a friend and his missus!           As I was coming back from the bar, a guy, who was a wee bit older … Continue reading →