Dear All,

I've finally made it into the secret bunker at the back end of chortle and am going to try and keep a blog of what's happening.

I've tried keeping a blog once before and at the start fell madly in love with it, became so obsessed with it that I did nothing else, basically ended up living via my blog to the extent where I never got out, before tiring of the blog and now we don't talk much any more...so this is my new blog and I feel excited, like I'm cheating on my old blog with this new one...perhaps I've entered the realms of the blog tart...in this exciting new world, I thought I'd try and share how the run into Edinburgh is going this year.

Currently, as some of you know, I'm working on three shows for the festival this year - that's a lot for me - but all three of them just seemed like such good ideas that I wanted to try and be open to them all so that I'd never be thinking - I wish I'd done that other one too...The shows are - The Man Who Discovered The Kama Sutra, All Aboard and Flanders and Swann...oh and I'll be playing with Maxwell at Fullmooners...either I'll have a great Edinburgh ("too much of a good thing is never enough" being the principle) or end it with a nervous collapse...

The weather has finally turned in my favour - it's the really irritating part of what I've been trying to do for the Kama Sutra show - in that I needed really good weather to do it (I know - the Kama Sutra and the great outdoors - it's a worrying combination) and have finally got the weather and the time free but am now just a few short weeks from opening at the Pleasance and really would like to have finished the show by now and previewed it hundreds of times...why can't we have really good weather in winter? Or move Edinburgh from August to March - do people like March? All I do in March is sit by a fire and watch the rain. Wouldn't it be better to have a great arts festival in March when there's not too much going on?

Actually, I suggest we start a petition here and now to move this year's Edinburgh Festival to March - and I'm not just saying that as I'm worried about opening the shows - but selflessly thinking of the all the little children who might have a birthday in March and would then really have something to look forward to. Move the Edinburgh Festival to March for the little children.

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