Virginia Ironside: Growing Old Disgracefully @ The Gilded Balloon Teviot

Virginia Ironside used to hate old people. Now she's one herself. How great to go to a show which makes you laugh about being 60+. From being a rock column chick, hair styled by Vidal, who interviewed the Beatles et al, she was 'groovy' (how dated that sounds now).

Then she woke up one morning to find herself interested in gardening! Help! Book-clubs, cruises, adult education classes and podiatrists all come under her scalpel with all the wit and intelligence Virginia is famed for in her columns as 'Agony Aunt' for Woman and currently The Independent, plus numerous books.

Virginia is not going to launch a career as a standup comic, but that's not the point. She is just herself and she's spot on about being 60. Her delivery and memory (she's very funny about 'Senior Moments') are a bit...now, what's the word? It's coming...wait a minute. No. Gone. Her mainly 60+ audience, including me, adored her and her dressing-gown is to die for. (Oops), though death and sex for the 60+ are not subjects Virginia shies away from.