every little thing she does is cabbage

Yesterday on the phone my mum reminisced about meeting Josh Widdicombe. She came to see me perform at the Edinburgh Fringe several times at the turn of the noughties/teenies, and took in all manner of random acts while she was at it. She reported sitting in a pub in central Edinburgh and Josh coming up to her and flyering her. She told him she had actually just seen him ("as part of some weird stand-up thing - there weren't many people there") and had thought he was very good.

(This would explain why there were, to my recollection, no Widdicombe flyers in her hoard - why take the flyer if you'd already seen the show?) (Oh, now that I check, her hoard was 2007-specific and Josh didn't start Fringing until 2008, actually.)

So it sounds fairly likely that she went and saw James' fabled 2009 debut Edinburgh show "Acaster, Helm and Widdicombe"! Because of course she would have. And when pressed, she said, oh, maybe it was that, but she didn't have any memory of James in it - she just remembered Josh was very good. Because of course she would/n't XD

I choose to assume that while this pub conversation was going on, James was also there, standing awkwardly behind Josh, being completely ignored while my mum obliviously showered his co-performer with compliments XD

To be boringly realistic, after some brief research into Josh's Fringe history, it was most likely actually "Comedy Gala 2010" that she saw, because that's a much more likely show title for her to rock up to on spec than "Acaster, Helm and Widdicombe", but nevertheless, the thought entertains me. It could alternatively have been 2010's "Amusements", which I hadn't heard of before, and which was also a collab with James! - that was just the two of them, though, so perhaps less worthy of the descriptor "some weird stand-up thing"...