My second day off.. which as I mentioned yesterday feels a bit weird, ‘cause you don’t normally do that at the fringe… but having the extra headspace, it became weirdly emotional. It kind of occurred to me that for many years I’ve spent 1/12 of every year in Edinburgh. And in various places… but for the last maybe 10 years I was with Mervyn Stutter’s Pick of the Fringe marketing folk, just off Holyrood and the Royal Mile. This year things have changed and I’m on the other side of town. So it was odd, given the pressures of presenting anything at the Fringe, to feel like I was ‘missing home’.
So I went down my old manor – the Royal Mile. As soon as I walked in to both the Waverley and the Tollgate Tavern Pubs, behind the bar they said. “Ah you’re back! Nice to see you again.” I kinda love the fact I was a regular, even if for only one month of the year! I even got a free beer at the one Pub as a thank you for our Lit Pub Crawl beer mats!
I’ve only ever been to Edinburgh for the Fringe (apart from one time when I opened a Superstore for a London Ad Agency! AND of course, last Christmas when the ‘A Christmas Carol’ I adapted and directed, performed by the brilliant Guy Masterson, was at Assembly Roxy over the festive period) And so, it was strangely emotional, particularity because some of the locals remembered me. Not Fringe folk, but local Edinburgh folk. It felt like Iwas being welcomed home. Only for a month of the year, but nice to see you back.
And how lovely is that?
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