Sharing the moment

The modern party. Shall we check our memories before we save them? And if they aren't quite the way we want them, shall we make them again. Really a continuation of Saturday night, but as blip takes a very literal view of the boundary between days, this is a blip for Sunday, taken only a few hours into the day. This is R at the after-show party for the two Grads' Fringe shows - Dr Faustus and Nobody Will Ever Forgive Us. Both were a success, although the former will have made significantly more money when the numbers are totted up. An advantage of having a bigger cast and doing a more well-known classic from the canon perhaps? Still the week has been a success for the whole group, putting on two different shows at the Fringe for the first time and casts and crews, and hangers-on came together to celebrate. A change of venue as D has moved flat to a more central location, but no less hospitable than previous cast parties. We left about five, with the party still going, if not quite strong at least well, considering the hour. And as always it helps to remember it didn't get started until about 11pm after the get-out from the venue. Still, a late night means a lazy day. Catching the end of the Olympics. No let up in the sporting excitement. A thrilling end to the men's mountain biking, with a win for a Czech rider by the smallest of margins. Then a great turnaround from the Russians in the volleyball.
They seemed dead and buried against the Brazilians after losing the first two sets. The commentators were already praising the South Americans and talking of the double in the men's and women's events and their second gold in three Olympics. The Brazilians had a three point lead in the set, and although they got pegged back they thought they were close enough at 23-22 to bring on their retiring captain who hadn't played much due to injury just so he could be on court for the victory. They failed to convert from there and he left the court again.
Still, the match point when it came seemed a formality.
But the Russians won it. Playing desperate defence at times they were hanging in there by their fingertips. Throwing themselves across the floor to keep the ball in play.
But even so, the Brazilians got another match point.
The Russians won that one too.
And after a couple of set points saved by Brazil the Russians won the set on their own third set point. Enough to make the score respectable. Brazil would reassert themselves in the fourth set. Except they didn't and Russia took it to a decider. And then won it, after a brief false note when a foot in the wrong place cost them what they thought was the winning point when they were already celebrating.
What a comeback!!
For a while it seemed that spain might shock the USA 'Dream Team', 2012 version in the basketball final, but the underdogs were eventually beaten in the fourth quarter.
And now watching the last event of all - the Women's Modern Pentathlon