I think the Youth of Today gets unfairly maligned. When we got home from work this evening, two boys who were playing out on our street politely asked to borrow some scissors. They then used the scissors to cut pieces of wool to make friendship bracelets and politely returned the scissors. How very non-stereotypical..

Since my last Spring post, winter came back with a vengeance. How ironic. We had one day of heavy snow last week, which through an unfortunate series of events flooded the boiler in my house quite dramatically ( Read more... )

Season's greetings! I'm full of the joys of spring today. Everything seems to be blossoming about a month early and Durham is very pretty right now.

This was last month: ( 2 February photos )

Today I'd like to promote my 10-year-old [half-]brother-in-law's Youtube channel. He scripts adventures which his Mario plush toys then perform, and the special affects are well done too. Look out for the ones with "Baby Attack" in the title, which guest star my youngest brother-in-law Max. He's quite cute ( Read more... )

Legally Blonde has announced it's closing in London in April. Sad news, but it's had a good run of 1000+ performances. Hot on the heels of that is the fuss surrounding Aoife Mulholland (Brooke) coming back from her year's maternity leave to do the last 8 weeks of the show. Her understudy, who has played Brooke for the last year, is very upset by ( Read more... )

Happy hurray-we're-past-the-winter-solstice celebration! We had a lovely Christmas day here. C's family were visiting for a couple of days, so we cooked a delicious (meat-free) meal and exchanged some very nice presents. I don't know what we did differently from usual but it all *worked* somehow, being left with the feeling that "yes, this is how ( Read more... )

This morning I've been baking mince pies for a party tomorrow, and now it's snowing prettily. Very seasonal. Now, if only it can snow just enough to look nice but not enough to stop anyone getting to the party..

It's cold today, think there's even some snow predicted for tonight.I really hope we don't get as much as last year.
That aside, I'm feeling nicely festive right now. I took my Rainbows to the pantomime yesterday and today I've wrapped a nice big pass-the-parcel for their end of term party tomorrow. :)

Starlight Express tour dates! Now it just needs to come up north-east. :D

So there's a rumour Starlight Express might be going to tour the UK again. That's quite exciting, but slightly sad when one has to speculate what's going to be cut from the script *this* time. I think I saw it 3 times on the 2004-7 tour (Sunderland, Edinburgh then Sunderland again IIRC) and each time the set seemed smaller and it seemed to have had ( Read more... )