Sketch group Lady Garden tell us how they're spending their spare time in Edinburgh...

1. Watching: This year we set ourselves the target of watching 8 shows a day (excluding our own). We're hoping to cover the entire Fringe between the 5 of us. Unfortunately we've already fallen woefully short. Although Rose is ahead of target having watched 14 pieces of physical theatre back-to-back on Tuesday, Beattie is lagging behind having watched nothing whatsoever except the man in his bathroom that she can see from her window. She is scheduled in for a full 24 hours of shows next Sunday to make up for it. She won't have time to fit in our show so we're looking for a stand-in if anyone wants to volunteer? No experience or skills necessary.

2. Applauding: There are so many great shows up here this year that we will be spending a disproportionately large amount of our time clapping our hands together. We've been thinking about it and have come to the conclusion that it's quite a weird way to demonstrate your appreciation. We're trying to start a revolution in which applause is replaced by the audience raising their arms above their heads and slowly waving them from side to side whilst whispering 'Good' over and over again until the performer runs from the stage in terror. It's not taken off so far. We've been asked to leave a few shows.

3. Peaking and Troughing: Ronan Keating wasn't wrong. Life is a rollercoaster. And no more so than at the Festival. Experience has shown us that in Edinburgh you can swing from a peak to a trough faster than you can say 'paranoid performer'. Peaks from last year included the sense of achievement we felt after managing to source 13 eight year old girls in 2 weeks to open our show (figurative peak) and Arthur's Seat (actual peak). Troughs from last year included getting heckled by one of the eight year old girls, and an unnamed sketch comedian drunkenly stumbling along our very narrow window ledge at 5am in a direct re-creation of the anti-drinking advert in which a man thinks he's a superhero, climbs some scaffolding, and falls off. We had to lure him back in with a crumpet and a 5 star review of his antics. You know that rollercoaster? Keating's right again. You just gotta ride it.

4. Fencing: We've really got into it recently.

[i]Lady Garden are at the Pleasance Courtyard at 6pm every day. Listing