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Dreadful Nonsense

"I've read your blog. it's really funny. you should write a column." - Jon Ronson

Today God showed His disdain for the Edinburgh Festival by not only flooding Edinburgh in a seriously close reenactment with his old Noah and Ark shtick, but also flooding most of Scotland besides. This of course inconvenienced us greatly, and we had to spend a good deal of the day standing under shelters in the Pleasance courtyard, not able to move. We whiled away the hour or so that we were stuck by trying to work out which one out of Laurence and Gus was Laurence, and which one was Gus. Adrian Poynton was kind enough to let us know, information I almost immediately forgot again.

Today we strayed from the path of Comedy and went down the winding road that is Theatre, or as we've been pronouncing it, "Theeeetahr". First we went to see the lovely Ben Moor's play Black Cocktail which was fantatic, and really not like anything he's ever done before. It's excellent, and I'd like to go back to see it again before the run is over. We also caught Adrian Poynton's play Success, which is also great. Watch out for the special guest appearance by the actor Tom Price, looking spectacularly similar to Dougie Howser MD.

We're off to see Nancy Cartwright talk in a stupid voice for an hour in the Assembly Rooms, and tonight Joanne aka Mrs Bishop is arriving from Dublin to join the CL family. Let the games begin.

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