Thursday 14th August 2008
I decided today to flyer outside the Book Festival in Charlotte Square; bookish types are bound to love Burns I thought. You know the kind; glasses, grey hair, wear flat shoes and ride bikes-well as far as I could tell with all the bikes chained to the railings outside Charlotte Square Gardens. [...]

Wednesday 13th August 2008
Good show today. Afterwards, I caught a glimpse of Richard de Marco in the lobby of our venue. He is an impresario, one of the Fringe’s founders and a friend; a man more unique would be hard to find. He had sent a lovely man to see the show, Krzysztof Noworyta, Head [...]

Tuesday 12th August 2008

What a fabulous audience tonight. The place looked packed..and in the small space we have, where the capacity is described as 36…twenty looked pretty full to me. My nieces came tonight..to gorgeous gals sitting in the front row, beside a theatre friend of mine, Maggie Rose, who I worked with on a project a couple [...]

Monday 11th August 2008

Good day today. I went through to Edinburgh early, after dithering about whether to let the train take the strain or shout expletives at speed fascists on the M8 behind the wheel of my trusty Punto. The Punto won, only because I had to pick up Anne’s stage manager bag of tricks from her house, [...]

Saturday 9th August 2008

I woke up today, feeling like I’d been drugged. The exhaustion is seeping in-or maybe it’s the cold I have, with the sneezing and runny nose and tickly cough that has been developing steadily these last few days. I am telling myself that it won’t become full blown, that my voice will hold up and [...]

Friday 8th August 2008

Well, what a day! Lots to tell.
We started early today so that we could flyer on the High Street (aka the Royal Mile). Anne, our trusty dresser and ready -for -anything ASM( always has a kirby at hand), had rallied her fabby daughter Mairi and her pals Marie and Hannah to give us a hand. [...]

Thursday 7th August 2008

Good start to the day today, because, having been informed by the VERY nice train conductor yesterday that the cheapest way to travel to Edinburgh was by group saver, today we got four tickets for the price of two saving us twenty quid! Wish we’d kent that last week! On the train, me and Trish [...]

Wednesday 6th August 2008

Third performance, lovely audience though they were very quiet; but from the stage I could see their smiling faces. I’m constantly fascinated at the different ‘feel’ of every audience. Some are more vocal; laugh at all the right bits, laugh at some bits you didn’t expect, then you know they’re right with you. The temptation [...]