No, it wasn’t my joke, but our other Festival treat was seeing Bill Bailey, the comedian, in concert at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The EICC tends to be used for big conferences, and Bill started his set by asking whether we were expecting a PowerPoint presentation…
Having seen Bill on TV in Black Books and some comedy panel shows, it was quite a buzz to see his show live. It included him bringing out an Alphorn (which folded out from something the size of a hat box to a musical instrument several feet long), and exiting the stage hugging a large pot plant.