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Hallo! I’m in Italy.

The filming of TWIST at the Bill Murray went really well. I think I did a solid job of a show I’m very proud of - dropped one thing but remembered to pick it up. Found clothes that worked for the show, which I needed to do as the clothes I’d worn as my stage uniform in edinburgh weren’t going to work.

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Post Fringe, Pre Filming, Mid Wreck.

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is over for another year which feels like a big thing of course; the festival is so absorbing and intriguing and fractal and full of wildness that it becomes its own pocket dimension of time and space. It feels like a bigger thing than usual that it’s over, given I don’t plan on doing it next year.

The last Monday show was sold out, which is a really lovely thing to happen as most people think the festival is already over by that point, and ...

Today’s Salon Cancelled

Hallo friends,

Today’s the last day of the fringe. I’m genuinely wrecked and the Wi-Fi’s bad. I’m going to have to pull today’s salon. But there will be a book club on Friday and salon next Monday as usual.

If you’d like to spend an hour in something like my company, there’s a new Tea With Alice up with Aaron Simmonds, who is delightful and interesting to listen to.

Also the gig at the Bill Murray in London where I will be filming twist on 3 Septemb...

Edinblog: Last Week of The Fringe

The second Gargle recording was a chaotic delight. I love how visual the jokes get at a podcast recording but yet somehow it still works if you weren’t there. Well, I say somehow. It’s the magic of Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter.

The 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe is heading towards the end of its run and there’s the usual feeling where the 3,000+ shows th...

Edinblog Update days ??? To ???

Past the halfway mark of this festival, by one day. How many days is one day anyway? What with late night calls and daytime naps, it all seems pretty surreal. Still enjoying the show. It’s such a fun balance to walk and audiences have been lovely though Sunday night (Before Day Off) was one of those ones where your mouth quiet quits on you (and the only reviewer I’ve had in so far was there, gross) and last night (After Day Off) the aircon decided to conk out which made me real...

Edinblog Day 6-9

Hallo! Edinburgh wifi is so bad it’s just deleted this post for the third time.

Short version, no book club today.

The show is going well, I had an epiphany about it last night.

I will have some london shows in September and will update you about all of the above when I have decent wifi and am not losing words to the void.

Edinblog Day 3-6

The show is feeling good and fun to perform. I’m finding new things in it each time, and it’s enough of a challenge to get the balance right that I don’t see myself getting stuck in it or bored or overconfident just yet.

This week I had in some comedy festival judges (half full room, nice but quiet crowd. I did a decent job; the show was what it was - it’ll either be to their taste or not. The only way I’ll find out is if they come again, and then it’s...

Edinblog Official Day 1-3

So, after two preview nights knocking out glitches, getting used to the tech and stage and tinkering with the show, I opened TWIST officially for Opening Night on Friday night.

It may have been the best performance of the show I’ve done so far, which was a very heartening start, though of course last night wasn’t quite as much of a high. I did a solid version of the show, but there were a terrifying number of teens in the front row, which meant that I sort of… slowed the roll of ...

Live Salon in Edinburgh Tomorrow (!) plus general update.

Right! Sorry to do two updates in one day, but I did say it’d be a bit chaotic for the month of August! Thanks to Sam Streeter for keeping me on the straight and narrow.

First things first, the first Live Salon in Edinburgh is at MIDDAY TOMORROW at the Tea House on St Patrick Square. I’ll be doing one a week for the rest of the fringe. Come, have a cuppa and a chat!

You can subscribe to t...

First Night Lights, and some Nitty Gritty.

Arrived in edinburgh around midday yesterday and had my first preview last night. Probably a mistake, TBH. I was so tired by the end of the day from waking up early pre-train-trip to pack and de-childproof the Airbnb (don’t want to give these jerks anything to complain about, after all) that I handed Laser Fraser off at 7pm just so I could go spend an hour in the dressing room before the show to stare into the middle distance. (My show starts at 8.30).

The middle distance s...

Writers meeting time change today

Hallo, last minute change today for the writers meeting - with the packing and last few days of pre edinburgh seeing people and getting things done logistics have had some undodgeable stuff come up this afternoon and everything else has had to shuffle. Sorry to do it to you at such late notice, but look forward to seeing you if you can make it to the later time (6pm start).

Calendar link etc in the linktree...

Pre-Edinburgh final prep.

There is one final WIP for Twist at the Jokes on Us Minifringe in Leicester (https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/jokes-on-us/t-krppmnl) on 29 July and then I’ll be catching a train up this strange land towards the wonderful chaos of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

If you’re in London and wanted to come see the show, but missed the previous previews, Leicester is a little less than two ...

Thieves and Mountain Streams

We had a lovely holiday with friends in Switzerland. I filled myself up with cold water swims in mountain streams and walking and talking and hanging out with their new baby and their six year old daughter. Laser slotted right in, patting the baby, following the six year old like a lost duck and advancing her extremely passionate relationship with the horses next door. Idyllic.

On Tuesday morning I was due to fly to manchester for WIP of twist and on Monday night I was packin...

Heat wave

Hallo friends, it’s hot in London and I made the mistake of heading to a paddling pool with Laser Fraser. A viler swamp of chaos and villainy I have never seen. The Australian water-access-privilege-snobbery kicked in hardcore, and I swept my delicate dumpling away from the scene as swiftly as possible lest she be polluted by exposure to people who think a muddy puddle counts as an acceptable public pool situation.

I wrote a joke once that in Australia, when we go to a bea...

What are the 1 on 1 Consultations?

I am offering paid 1 on 1 consultations, primarily to Patreon people; by primarily, I mean you get preferential booking because slots are very limited.

I’ll try to answer any questions you might have here, and if I’ve left something out that you’d like to know, ask below and I’ll try to answer here.

Why 1 on 1 Consultations?

When I started the Patreon, I used to offer monthly 1 on 1 chats at a certain subscription level. I real...

Writing writing

Yesterday was exciting because the D’Ancey LaGuarde Reader hit 100% of the pre-sales/support required to make it financially viable as a project (they can afford to print it). More presales now will mean money to me and to the Bugle, which is pretty cool.

https://unbound.com/books/the-dancey-laguarde-reader/

Thanks from the bottom of my bodice go to all the lovely people who have funde...

D’Ancey Update + Book Club Tonight Cancelled

Hallo friends!

I just wrote this update to the unbound pledgers on the D’Ancey La Guarde Reader preorder/funding page.

“Well, this is ridiculous. The D’Ancey LaGuarde Reader is getting funded at a pulsatingly swift pace; the pre-orders coming in as hot as a laird in a ripped kilt on a lathered horse.

I sort of can’t believe this book is actually loo...