GREETINGS from the PBH Free Fringe in Edinburgh, where I’m currently into the sixth day of a fortnight long run (Bannerman’s Bar — 4pm, apart from Saturdays when it’s 1.30pm) doing a different performance at each show.

It’s a marathon which starts with me unravelling a set list on stage which would probably get in the Guinness Book of Records and by the time it finishes a week tomorrow I’ll have performed a total of 14 hours of material. Quite literally the performance of a lifetime, chronicling the last 43 years in poem and song.

I’ve already sung the praises of Peter Buckley Hill’s wonderful cultural uprising which is subverting the overpriced mainstream Fringe with free admission shows where the audience pays what they want, or nothing, at the end. So just to say that readers of this newspaper are especially welcome.