“Piping Hot“. Doesn’t this make you want to rush out right now and get a program? Can you believe there was even a 24 page supplement in The Herald last week? A day by day guide to piping events at the festival, culminating with the World Championships on the Saturday, described as “the pipe band equivalent of the Olympics”.

Unfortunately, we will be in Edinburgh on this momentous occasion, at the Fringe Festival. Here I predict we will see a range of funny, some brilliant, some pathetic, series of plays, stand-ups and street theatre.

And perhaps, if we’re lucky, a little bit of piping on the side. This IS after all, Scotland…