Holidays

Off to the Edinburgh fringe festival for a few nights tomorrow and so Blog will go quiet unless I can find an Internet cafe, which I suppose is a possibility. The fringe isn't really a holiday it's more like being swirled around in a giant, cultural washing machine. Edinburgh, during the fringe is the most exciting place I've ever been. It's full to the brim of crazy, creative and energetic people all desperate for you to see their show or watch their act. It doesn't really start until Sunday but we are going up early this year to catch some of the pre-shows.
A little competition we enjoy, while there is "Spotting the famous people", I had a spectacular win last year with a sighting of Ronnie Corbett but it's great to be in the queue for tickets behind "someone off the telly" or overhearing a well-known, familiar BBC Radio Four voice talking on their mobile at the table next door to you in a bar. It's really strange seeing people who are so famous in the street. You almost feel obliged to speak to them because they are so familiar to you having been in your living-room so often but of course they have no idea who you are 'cause they can't see you from inside the telly.
Looking forward to lots of shows but also having Cappucino and a brie and red-onion marmalade bagel in Elephants and Bagels, the coffee shop where now famous J.K. Rowling allegedly wrote "Harry Potter" . Of course this year I'm entitled to call myself a novelist having finished my own novel, Martha's Vineyard, ( buy or download it from www.lulu.com/content/607829 ) a couple of months after returning from the Edinburgh fringe last year. That was the easy bit, marketing it and getting an agent and publisher is proving to be the hard bit, I guess. Back next week, bye for now.