under another sun

A fairly cheery day. Worked on the play,  and popped into the gym. The play is shaping up nicely, and then we went off this evening down to the Sallis Benny for the official Fringe launch. Beth and I were early and ended up being the first there. It was a fun event with lots of folks doing fringe performances. Plus there were free drinks too, which was a boon. Helping everyone enjoy a long speech thanking people by the fairly charming Julian Caddy, and the lady mayor gave a speech too about the economic benefits of the Fringe mixed with a couple of knob gags. The fringe brings in millions apparently. There were some entertainments, a magician, someone conducting people through a museum of thermos flasks (this was heartily recommended by a Scottish woman, who said her friend was doing it). I lasted five minutes of the tour, which was a funny enough idea. Then Beth and I drifted to watch the main stage, where some comedy Kings, which seem to be the opposite to Queens, so ladies d...

Guts still feeling as if someone has punched them, but after waking up very early, writing my blog post for my other blog about Chad, I simply slept spent a good deal in the day and felt much improved. In other news I phoned Amazon about my camera and to my astonishment they will simply replace it. While, annoyingly, I've discovered that my French clients have not paid my invoices so I am chasing them. At tea time I struggled from the gold sofa and went with Betty to the registration event for the Brighton Fringe. We are planning to put on a show on next May called A Glass of Nothing . We talked to a couple of the people that run our preferred venue. We also popped into the Basketmakers Arms for a debrief (good to be in there plotting again) and got talking to Piper and Rachael who have a venue in Kemptown, which we will zoom along to see.  Nice people. Home to Lorraine looking a bit peaky with a sore throat, and baked pasta with a side dish of an anti-malaria pill. Below a ...