How many dancing Princesses?

I'm coming home tomorrow! For a dose of the Fringe. I am not planning on sleeping at all, but on seeing Rich during the day and then heading off to the Gilded Balloon at night. This plan has rather put me in mind of a book my Dad used to read to me - did anyone else ever read 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses'? I had the version illustrated by Errol de Cain and it was so beautiful. I think I wanted all the dresses. And the boats.

The premise, as far as I remember it, was that these twelve princesses were locked into their room each night, but each morning they had worn away another pair of shoes, and nobody could understand it. I could keep going like that for a while before anyone noticed a dent in my shoe hoard, but evidently the king was very attentive to his daughters footwear. Of course, what no-one realised was that they were traversing gold, silver and diamond forests, and sailing across a lake, to get to the Gilded Balloon and go to Late'n'Live or Hot Dub Time Machine every night. In the end they were busted, but I'm going to be keeping a sharp watch out for Princes in invisibility cloaks, so we should be fine.

See you tomorrow chums, I am so excited!
x

Off to GB...