What's going on in Buxton cyberspace then? I sit down to write some more deathless prose only to find Mr Minky has been splashing about all over the place - using all manner of colours and huge font sizes. Calm down my friend - this is a marathon not a sprint.
Anyway while Mr Minky was starting to grow a beard, Buxton Festival Fringe was celebrating the drunken Scottish versifier R Burns. Our celebrations might have been even more successful had some of us taken our spectacles the better to read Ode To A Haggis. Though poor vision may have been a cover for even poorer Scottish accents.
You may have gathered from all of this that there is little real news with regard to our favourite festival. There are now 10 entries - early birds taking advantage of the reduced entry fee (£40 until the end of February, £60 in March and then £80 in April). We operate a kind of reverse sales policy - the closer we get to the end of the selling season the more it costs. Either retailers have got it wrong - trying to create a last minute frenzy - or we'll have egg on our collective faces.
We have had one polite enquiry - about the availability of good grand pianos in Fringe venues. One possible entrant is looking to play in a more intimate space than St John's Church but needs a good piano to play on. Any tips or recommendations for a venue?
Beyond that can anyone suggest a decent anniversary to celebrate next weekend - preferably without recourse to reading aloud in public?
by Keith Savage - Published 27/01/2008
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