Last night I arrived home to find a bulky envelope on the floor just inside the front door. It turned out to contain roughly a hundred flyers for a show called My Dear Old Thing ! The Loves and Laughs of Henry Blofeld, starring the pigeon-fancying, bus-obsessive TMS commentator himself. Apparently there are "two shows only!" in Edinburgh, both at the EICC.
"But when?", I hear you ask. Well, when would you schedule a cricket-themed entertainment if you were a showbiz entrepreneur ? Precisely. This Saturday and Sunday at 1.30, the very time when the most devoted cricket fans in Edinburgh, your potential audience, are ...... playing cricket.
Unless, of course, the Met Office are finally right and what the President would call "ludicrous weather" is on the way in spades. From the photo, it looks like that's what Blowers is banking on.
(Just in case we do actually get rained off, more information about the show can apparently be found at http://www.festivalhighlights.com/).
"But when?", I hear you ask. Well, when would you schedule a cricket-themed entertainment if you were a showbiz entrepreneur ? Precisely. This Saturday and Sunday at 1.30, the very time when the most devoted cricket fans in Edinburgh, your potential audience, are ...... playing cricket.
Unless, of course, the Met Office are finally right and what the President would call "ludicrous weather" is on the way in spades. From the photo, it looks like that's what Blowers is banking on.
(Just in case we do actually get rained off, more information about the show can apparently be found at http://www.festivalhighlights.com/).
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for an example of him in story-telling form:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJD8o5rYiFE
or is it Gerry?
"Unless, of course, the Met Office are finally right and what the President would call "ludicrous weather" is on the way in spades. From the photo, it looks like that's what Blowers is banking on."
ReplyDeleteThe 2's luck may be in, the weather radar for tomorrow is looking distinctly promising, heavy rain today, but dry from 9am tomorrow morning. Although this may all change in the next 24 hours, its the best its looked for saturday all week!
'Saturday and Sunday at 1.30, the very time when the most devoted cricket fans in Edinburgh, your potential audience, are ...... playing cricket'.
ReplyDeletePerhaps he assumed that his core audience were likely to be aged 50 plus and therefore too old to
still be playing...
http://sport.scotsman.com/sport/Veteran-voice-Blowers-hot-and.5557239.jp
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