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Wednesday Jul 23, 2008

A few teething problems

Tonight marks Day 6 of my time in Edinburgh but this is only my first entry since I arrived at the Fringe. Through no fault of my own, I hasten to add! I have been surprisingly diligent about recording my tired/excited/fed-up/happy rambles onto the audio device that Chris from TheSite.Org kindly provided me with, but despite my best attempts, I can't find a computer here which will allow me to send the files to him.

So instead! You get me typing and a few photos.

The trip up here from London wasn't too bad. It was 10 hours long and I couldn't sleep, but I'm sure it could've been much worse, somehow!

I'm sharing a flat with eleven people at the moment, but there are 5 double bedrooms and a sofa bed/matresses in the living room. We are seem to get on fine so far - hopefully it'll stay that way!

I've been working with a company called C Venues. I've spent the last 5 days at their main building, the aptly named C Main, helping with a variety of odd jobs, mostly painting, drilling, etc.

Here is the Broadway Bar section of C Soco (another venue of C Venues), which I painted white as a base coat, with the help of Ben:

This is the Urban Garden, which is the back outdoor area of C Main. As you can see, it´s majoritively scaffolding and work-in-progress at the moment, but its changing each day.

There you can see a team of volunteers doing their best ant-march impressions with 16 ply wood.

DJ and Francesca stapling carpet to black-out panels to block out outside light and noise pollution from wrecking people´s dramatic stuffs

And here, you can see our black-out panel on the left and in the background of the right, some other panels already in windows:

I´ll upload more piccies soon. :)

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