Apologies, because this should have appeared here on Monday - two days ago - but something called ‘real work‘ kept getting in the way.

We needed something to wrap up Spoleto ‘08 nicely, and what else but an acceptance to the Finale Picnic Judging competition. So Geoff, our intrepid ‘video guy’ gamely stepped up to the challenge, and mingled with the picnickers at Middleton Place on Sunday afternoon …

As this will probably be the last post for this year (sob!) we’d like to say ‘thanks’ to y’all for checking out the SpoletoToday.com blog for the past three or so weeks. Our stats tell us there’s a healthy number of you out there that have enjoyed the coverage, and we’ve certainly enjoyed putting it all up here for you.

We just hope that we’re still around to do it all again next year …

Sometimes we amaze ourselves — as with today when we manage to talk about nearly all things Spoleto, even though it’s coming to a gradual end. But we’ve had fun, right - huh? Of course we have.

The awesome Janet is back in the SpoStudio with regular BritBoy Geoff hosting.

Hear today’s podcast direct by following this link, or why not subscribe permanently here throughout the duration of the festival and get it fed to your MP3 player automatically. There’s also our guide to podcasting here.

The UCB (Upright Citizens Brigade touring company) improv group are in town from New York, and I got the chance to catch up with them at their house on Folly Beach on Tuesday evening. They’ve still got two more shows left - Friday and Saturday night at Theatre 99, and we seriously recommend that you catch them while you can …

There’s no Janet today — and Harriet is sick too! So it’s an all-male show on your ‘cast today as Geoff hosts with Dan and Jack acting as his wingmen. Geoff was obviously out too late last night, as he keeps thinking that it’s Wednesday and not Thursday, but apart from that I think we almost make sense …

Hear today’s podcast direct by following this link, or why not subscribe permanently here throughout the duration of the festival and get it fed to your MP3 player automatically. There’s also our guide to podcasting here.

It’s not to late to get Spoleto’d up if you’ve missed out on the whole thing so far. And seeing as it had been a few days since I pointed my video camera in someone’s face and harassed them, I decided to head down to the Gaillard - ticket central for Spoleto ‘08 - and do just that …

Geoff’s back in the studio with Janet for Podcast number thirteen, discussing whe she’s bought Monkey tickets twice, how much it costs to run the Piccolo Fringe, and what we all got up to last night - performance wise, that is.

Hear today’s podcast direct by following this link, or why not subscribe permanently here throughout the duration of the festival and get it fed to your MP3 player automatically. There’s also our guide to podcasting here.

There’s no chance of you getting up and leaving before 40 minutes of one of our podcasts - we’re keeping them nice and snappy this year and not longer than 10 minutes!

The same cannot be said for the P&C’s official Spoleto reviewer Tim Page, who left ‘Monkey’ last night after 40 minutes despite its “many excellences” … Harriet’s in the studio trying to explain why.

I also catch up with the manager of Pure Theatre R.W. ‘Smiddy’ Smith, to talk about the Piccolo shows that they’re running this year.

Hear today’s podcast direct by following this link, or why not subscribe permanently here throughout the duration of the festival and get it fed to your MP3 player automatically. There’s also our guide to podcasting here.

Ok, I confess that I should have had this video report up online yesterday, but I was busy being pre-occupied being on TV myself instead.

Such bad timing/co-ordination then led to Dan to write a post about The Devil and Deep Blue Sea, followed immediately by a video post by me, about, er .. oh .. The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.

Yup … I was out partying on Monday night, which meant that with a martini in one hand, and my video camera in the other I went-a-mingling after the penultimate show to see if I could work out why on earth it involved gingerbread men …

When we covered Spoleto last year, we got invited onto a local radio show to talk about our blog coverage. And I just about remembered to take my video camera along and record some of it, just for … well, just because I could really. [Last years video]

As we’ve stepped up our game this year blog-wise, and my video camera seems to be surgically attached to my body, it seemed almost rude not to use it when we moved up from being on the radio to being on TV to talk about and plug SpoletoToday.com

So yes, I confess - this is self indulgent - but fun too, as Janet and me were on ABC this morning on LowCountryLive, to talk about, er - this site!

In case you can’t hear it (the audio is not the best - I left my camera running on a chair about 20 feet away!) we’re talking about the video contest we’re running, and your chance to win $200 for making a video of your own about this years Spoleto and Piccolo festivals. See Janet’s earlier post for the full details.

Piccolo Fringe have got many brilliant shows over the next couple of weeks (At decent prices, too! For all of you who say Spoleto can be pricey), and a perfect example is the improv group The Reckoning, visiting from iO Theater Chicago who have done some early shows. If you’re reading this on Monday, then it’s NOT TOO LATE to get a ticket for tonight and catch this marvelous five-piece.

I caught up with group member Jet Eveleth, who is also part of the show ‘I live next door to horses’ and asked her a few quick questions …