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hope hairdo improves..and beware tarantulas from those bananas!!
its ok bondage optional.. - Posted on 14-Aug-2012 7:13am by Jambo Yoti
While JY off counting shackled seals and Baz is build sea defences against the invading soft fruit with his hair we're off to the capital city as it's JAM day for us!!
and we don't mean making compote
It Del second and Cal's first trip to the Edinburgh Fringe this year and this afternoon we have tickets for Just a Minute
We have 5 shows in all today so the be no hesitation, deviation or repetition from us today
- Posted on 14-Aug-2012 8:47am by Cal N Del
345 days to WOMAD and Del likes numbers that are in runs like that
Cal - "simple things ..........."- Posted on 14-Aug-2012 8:49am by Cal N Del
enjoy just a min and the BIG CITY!
wonderful sight of over 150 seals sleeping on the beach, surfing in on waves cavorting and fighting each other and singing..woooo!!
also thunder and monsoon followed by sun...
- Posted on 14-Aug-2012 6:05pm by Jambo Yoti
were just back, Cal has gone to bed (she feel asleep in the car on the way home luckily Del was driving) and Del is now winding down after the drive home (even luckier he didn't fall a sleep on the way home)
anyway back to today and it's been a but of adventure!!!
first up was Hanafuda Denki (A Tale of Fantastic Traditional Playing Cards) which we thought was going to be a serous piece of Japanese theatre about life and death instead it was a bizarre, lively and enthusiastic musical about the daughter of a dead family which owns a funeral home (which also offered to kill it customers to save wasting time) who falls in love with a living boy. The plot was a bit hard to follow (reading subtitles and trying to watch the actors at the same time is never easy) but we managed to follow most of it. The humor was very black at time and the some of the jokes were very rude which made for strange viewing at 1 in the afternoon, but that the fridge!!
http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/theatre/hanafuda-denki-a-tale-of-fantastic-traditional-playing-cards
Next was JAM and we had to queue to validate our tickets as although we had got "tickets" they send out more that the hall can hold and it a first come first service on the day!!! It wasn't so bad and after queuing and re queuing once we got validated we go into the show. We won't say took much about it apart for Janey Godley (she was very good at JAM) and Hannibal Buress (he only heard the show once and you could tell) were the special guest and Paul Merton and Gyles Brandreth (he took a shine to Hannibal) were the regulars. It was all good fun and very enjoyable!!!
Next was Susan Calman and we discovered we had left our tickets in Glasgow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we had just enough time to go to he fringe box office as we had booked with then and they advised us to go to the venue box office. Eventually after talking to some very helpful people we were advised they couldn't print off more tickets as it was a sell out but they would walk us around to the venue and if there were 2 seats left we would be let it. We were confident we would get in and sure enough we were allowed in just before the show started.
The show it's self was very funny and was all about her recent marriage or more to the point the fact she could call it a marriage as her partner is a woman. At the end of the show she mention that today she had just had her first piece of hate mail on the subject and then made an emotional and tearful plea for the people in the show to back the campaign for right for same sex marriage as it needed everyone to back it and not just gay and lesbian people. She told us that she was asking all her audience to do this but everyone in the room could tell that she had been really upset by the hate mail and we all filled the room with clapping, stamping feet and cheering voices when she finished. When we left the hall and we decided to wait for a few minutes in case Susan came out we ended up being the only people outside the doors in a large courtyard and we were just about to leave when Susan appeared, she looked like she had shed quite a few tears but was happy to speak to us and we both gave a very big hug and told her how much we enjoyed her show and thanked her for her honesty (on impulse Del also gave her his Korean fan to help keep her cool in the hot a sweaty venues in fringe). She thanked both of us but we could see she was still a bit wobbly after such an emotional performance and we were delighted to see her get even more hugs when we walked through the crowds as she left the venue!!!!!!!
PS she is tiny!!!!!!!!!
http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/susan-calman-this-lady-s-not-for-turning-either
Next was the wonderful Antonio Forcione who play some tracks from his new album Sketches of Africa and was as wonderful as ever, he has played WOMAD and Del asked him if he would play again and all he said was that it wasn't up to him (email to the big WOMAD tent in the morning)http://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/music/antonio-forcione-sketches-of-africa
Lastly was Word Play who improvised a whole play from just the title "the onion king" it was very entertaining and a fun and gently way to end our dayhttp://www.edfringe.com/whats-on/comedy/word-play
Right it time for Del to get some sleep- Posted on 15-Aug-2012 1:37am by Cal N Del
So the fervour continues and the resistance continues to continue!
THIS MAY NEED REVISION COS Baz STILL IN REVERIE (or is that reverse?)!!And it's...(deep breath)...344 ( Cal n Del - now in the same year!) DAYS TO WOMAD (Confirmed by Nigenet http://www.nigenet.org.uk/stuff/womadcount/)
YAY!!!!!KeEp TwInKliNg aNd TwIrLiNg AnD SpArKliNg AnD FiZzIng AwAy
Womadtastic is a fabulous word!!
Fabulous is a WOMADtastic word!! Yay!!49 cuddly weekends or 344 (344 for Cal n Del..still with us???) days
343 or so ago till Radio Womad test streaming for 2013..please Munners a national station??
136 days to Christmas 2012?!! http://www.xmasclock.com/ can’t say you have not been warned!
156 days until Celtic Connections 2013
345 days to Becky’s Wedding AND Jim’s 22nd Birthday! – 24th July 2013
1 day till tomorrow (but another day closer – yet it never seems to come)
32 days (no going into the wilderness now!) to (Happy) Leonard Cohen for SS & Jambo - Lars von Trier is back in support.
13 days 'till see Staff Benda Bilili (JY)
When is it for the next ISIHAC?On Mondays Munners round the world music show started September 5th 2-4pm Bristol community Radio on 93.2FM and online at bcfm.org.uk
…and then enjoy:
Walters’ World, 8 - 10 pm every Monday with a run in to the show from 7.30 ( Redleg can't get to the studio before 8 - so he preloads half an hour of mixed interest music) on Point FM 103.1 and online at http://www.pointfm.co.uk/
Don't talk to strangers...unless they're really strange!
(Always good advice)sUnDaNcInG aNd JuMpInG fOr JoY aNd WoMaDtAsTiC MaDnEsS
sUnDaNcInG aNd JuMpInG fOr JoY aNd WoMaDtAsTiC MaDnEsS
sUnDaNcInG aNd JuMpInG fOr JoY aNd WoMaDtAsTiC MaDnEsS
- Posted on 15-Aug-2012 7:00am by Baz
Morning luvelees,
Glad CND enjoyed the Benefits of the Fringe and hope JY's Seal Quest wasn't too "Crazy"! - Posted on 15-Aug-2012 7:06am by Baz
- 'mornin all..no wonder Cal fell asleep on the way back and amazing (and lucky) Del didn't! a fabulous packed day..and with your own excitment (leaving tickets!!) to liven it up..sounds a really amazzing day and well done Susan Calman and you 2 for support to her!!!! Del I hope you topped it all off with some of that whisky of yours (not sure any left after Womad) I'm going to view your links with breakfast
Baz -I did NOT interfere with any of the seals!!!! I didn't go swimming with them either like a time before..too shallow a tide, ripping wind but they were so playful and gorgous , you're right I would love to have brought one home with me..but it would not fit into my pond happily!!
DrEaMiNg Of SeAlS AnD SuNsWiMmInG FoR wOmAd
- Posted on 15-Aug-2012 7:47am by Jambo Yoti
Cal N Del .. Hanafuda Denki ..surreal and spooky! gold and mothers huh?? Freud would have something to say about that!!
and Antonio Forcione would be great on the Radio£ stage..if they re-site it !!
waiting for someone to put a Susan Calaman 2012 on youtube to catch some of her... - Posted on 15-Aug-2012 8:57am by Jambo Yoti
umm Radio 3 not £!!
- Posted on 15-Aug-2012 8:57am by Jambo Yoti
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