What great weather this week in Edinburgh. I've been lounging around in the sun, playing golf, doing a bit of hillwalking, having the odd alfresco libation...
This is all well and good. The problem is I've got loads of stuff to do with regards to the upcoming Fringe show, but just get led astray by the appearance of the big yellow circle thing in the sky.
Living in Scotland, you can never be really sure whether the current hot spell is going to be the defining moment weather-wise of the whole summer, and that the rest of the season will be the usual grey, rainy, chilly shite we all know so well.
Therefore, you feel you have to take advantage of the weather while the going is good.
I'd quite like a few days of shit weather now, to allow me to work on my assorted tasks without a temptation to gambol about in the sunshine, gradually metamorphosising into a donkey, and being taken away to work in a Circus.
I bumped into Geordie freelance artist Stevie Woods in town. Stevie is something of a "free spirit". I used to play 5s football with him. The convention was that one team would wear white, and one team would wear black. However, Stevie always showed up wearing a Newcastle United top, and would just shrug his shoulders when his intelligence became a matter of debate amongst the assembled players.
He's just come back from a holiday in Spain. He was staying in a non-air conditioned caravan. The temperature there was constantly between 37 and 40 degrees.
Apparently Stevie "hates" the sun. What a character!
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Ah Jim ... it is so funny that you should talk of metamorphising into a donkey, and then move seamlessley to your footballing game... the great stand-up comics can always link, like Ronnie Corbett sitting down .. no ?
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