Lots of art stuffed in between Christmas and New Year. Actually all mostly in one day. The Joan Eardley exhibition at the National Gallery and then the ECA Centenary exhibition at the City Art Gallery, along with a cute little exhibition called "Scissors Paper Stone" that celebrated the unique and individual charms of Edinburgh in paper, stone like ceramics and some other substances too and a (my favourite) exhibition on imagination which allowed you to fasten the wrong halves of animals together. A little street theatre and hair sculpture thrown in for good measure at The Night Afore in George Street. And before and after all of this, lots of drinking.

All an elaborate but pleasurable form of procrastination. I haven't even got as far as punching holes into my script and putting it into a folder. Unlike Some. Blocking this poor bastard play which starts rehearsing in oh 3 days will just have to wait.