No I didn't really buy a new car - that was the title of Alan Cumming's show late on Friday night/Saturday morning. Apparently, this was a sentence he had to write when he became a naturalised U.S. citizen a few years ago to prove he had a grasp of the Queen's English!
Saturday morning was a very slow start - hardly surprising - and we would probably have stayed in bed for a while longer had we been staying in a hotel, rather than our usual B & B. It's very nice and homely, but breakfast was at 8:30 am sharp and we were out of the place, pacing the streets again just after 10 am.
We strolled up to the west end of George St and the Book Festival in Charlotte Square - a regular stop for us. We were able to relax, have a cup of tea, read the papers and buy some books. We had tentatively planned to do the 10 am walk down the Royal Mile, but our late night scuppered that.
I read about the Five Guys Named Moe show on at McEwan Hall at 5:15 pm - it's a show I've tried to see a few times, but kept missing it, and this production had Clarke Peters (Lester Freamon from The Wire) in it, and we had time between shows if we could get tickets. So, off we wandered to the Udderbelly complex and we were lucky enough to get a couple of tickets.
OK - now some lunch, then back to the Gilded Balloon for the Life and Rhymes of Ian Dury - and very good it was too. (More photos etc on my other music and ale blogs, and also on Facebook and You Tube).
Jo wanted to have her photo taken in front of the Udderbelly - a giant inverted cow:
Later on, she insisted on taking one of me right inside the complex:
There was only a short break between shows - a total of 4 today, all just a few yards away from each other. Five Guys Named Moe and Danny Bhoy were both inside the McEwan Hall:
Both shows were terrific - Danny Bhoy was another I'd been meaning to see, but hadn't got round to until now.
So now, we had time for dinner before heading back to the Udderbelly for the late night John Cooper Clarke show. After a bit of huffing and puffing, we finally chose well - Maison Bleue ( http://www.maisonbleuerestaurant.com/).
JCC was pretty good as well - Jo was prepared for the worst, but she was, I think, expecting some kind of ogre - and he's certainly not that nowadays.
So we got back to bed at the relatively early time of 1:30 am - just one day left!
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