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Tuesday 18th August “The Edinburgh Festival is an unyielding, hostile terrain, with thousands of shows on offer – some good, some ok and some bloody awful. If you don`t know what’s going on, you could end up locked in a basement on the Royal Mile watching Polish midgets juggle dildos. The Royal Mile is dangerous,Continue reading “August 18th Edinburgh Fringe- Tuesday”

Went to Fringe Central this morning for a lecture on “How To DO A FRINGE SHOW HERE.”Found out there are 30,000 shows here this month! One of the people speaking is a 78 yearold woman Lynn Ruth Miller, who has three different shows in the Free Fringe this month. Then witnessed a staged competition betweenContinue reading “Monday 17th Aug Edinburgh”

Need more bandages.Raining again today, Monday 17th. Yesterday it stopped raining for awhile. Dressed up as Nun asked a passer by to take photo’s outside the Hub and Red Door Church, the wind really picks up the habit, I feel a bit like I’m sailing when I wear the big white hat.4 more shows yesterday,Continue reading “Sunday 16th August Edinburgh”

9:30 am Taxi to Traverse to wait in the cue for a standby ticket for hit show Midsummer: a play with music… waited till 11 but did notnot get in, stopped with the lady in front of me. Went to farmers market had a a Scotch Egg, a hard boild egg wrapped in saussage meatContinue reading “Sat 15th Aug Edinburgh”

Rain, rain, rain…Saw three shows.John Hegley: The Adventures of Mr. Robinet, cleaver dead pan style, some songs, read from his poetry, it was as if he had planned the show the night before, he was so relaxed it was as if he didn’t really care about what he was doing.Then Circa, another super popular cirqueContinue reading “Friday, Aug 14th Edinburgh Fringe”