Late Night Gym Fight

We have had a really lovely day at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Heather and Ewan. The weather was warm and dry all day and we saw four events, which I think was plenty. One of James' colleagues goes to six events per day but I preferred our more leisurely approach, which started with a delicious lunch in The Holyrood 9A which is a favourite of Ewan's. Our four events were as follows:-
1. Eric's Tales of the Sea - A storyteller and thoroughly nice guy. He told his stories well but didn't have the "wow" factor for me. It didn't help that I was feeling a bit sleepy after my lunch!
2. The New Rope String Band - Three musicians hamming it up and having a laugh. It was quirky and quite old-fashioned with a lot of slapstick humour but remarkably good fun in the "Famous Spiegel Tent" which was a great venue.
3. The Return of the Lumberjacks - Three Canadian comedians, all very accomplished at their craft and a pleasure to watch. Craig Campbell was a likeable chap who was very funny with his observations about Scotland. His sewing machine needle image will stay in my mind for a long time! Glenn Wool was my favourite because I thought that he was the most unusual - quite edgy and subversive which I like. And Stewart Francis delivered hilarious one-liners - not my favourite format usually but he did it so extremely well that my face was sore from laughing!
4. The Late Night Gimp Fight - The young comedians were nowhere near as polished and experienced as the older Canadian comedians that we saw earlier. However it had some funny moments and I liked their raw enthusiasm. James' favourite sketch was the pantomime one which challenged our pantomime stereotypes and ended with the chilling "We all did it!"
We had a light tea at The Dome Garden near The Assembly Rooms - it was so good that it was warm enough to sit outside to eat.
We were very tight for time between our last two shows so we jumped into a taxi to take us from The Assembly Rooms to the Pleasance Courtyard. The pleasant taxi driver did a great job of getting us there on time and asked us what we were going to see. I told him, feeling rather embarrassed, "The Late Night Gimp Fight" but he misheard and said "Late Night Gym Fight?" to which I just said, "Yes" to the relief of James, Heather and Ewan - hence the title of this post! The taxi driver then went on to say that if we wanted to see fighting we should be in his cab later on when all the people who had been over-indulging would be fighting! After the last show we had drinks at the Pleasance Courtyard and chatted about our day and the shows we have seem before heading back to our accommodation which was at Edinburgh University's Pollock Halls of Residence. I had better go to sleep now because it's 2 a.m!