Today I've mostly bin...

[Wulfruna]

an evening at the Bridgewater Hall watching The Sixteen perform Brahms Requiem with Wulf and dad.

I can endorse the treat that we had - since moving away from Manchester we have really missed the wonderful concerts at the Bridgewater Hall (one of the best halls in the UK). But for Eirian it was a special treat as her choral society had performed it quite recently, so she knows it from the inside .
As for Supersleuth - you don't know what you're missing! If you want fireworks then there's some really explosive stuff in some of those choruses..... Tastes may be different, but I guess P had a fantastic evening even without you.......

[Wulfruna]

Sorry to hog this thread for a bit, but you will have realised that we just had a wonderful couple of days away visiting our gorgeous grandson Thomas..... oh and incidentally it was quite nice to see Eirian and Sigur Ros at the same time
Ah well, I suppose I shall just have to get back now to boring things like puzzle-solving....

[Bunnylump]

Sounds like you had a lovely time together. All I've done today is spend absurd amounts of money on two fireworks for tomorrow night's extravaganza. I really should just set light to the garage instead. Although I had a bit of a result in that the lad who served me at the shop was an ex pupil, so he threw in some free fireworks...comes in handy sometimes being a "cool" "teacher" Then I've been doing boring things like puzzling...

[dramaticat]

... auditioning for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. A bit of a pig's ear, certainly not up to my usual standard, but given I only had three days to prepare a tricky song, I was also quite pleased with the way it went too!

Home for 20 mins to pick up all the stuff I need for panto rehearsals, then it's back down to the village hall. Hoping Ian will have cooked the pot roast for 8pm when I'm due home

[Bunnylump]

You obviously have him well trained!!

Fingers crossed for the audition result.

[Bunnylump]

...Going back to work. Still, my one consolation for today is that it's my marathon telly night. University Challenge*, followed by Only Connect, then New Tricks. How sad am I??

*Although, and I really the only person who cringes at the theme tune? That double bass is DEFINITELY out of tune!!

[LAT]

But there's no New Tricks!

[Bunnylump]

I know, how rubbish is that?

[giraffe]

Had a double take moment this morning, when I thought I saw MBH crossing the road as I dropped the children at the bus stop!

[clvrlad]

that must be a long dog walk

[Bunnylump]

Leaving work ALMOST on time. Knew it would be a mistake - another big sink hole had appeared in the road on the way home, so they had three way traffic lights, which backed up to the next set of traffic lights so that nobody could turn at that junction, which in turn, backed the traffic right the way through the village. It took me an hour an a half to drive three miles.

What I don't think the planners have taken into account with the massive new housing estate they have built on the site of the paper mill is WHY the paper mill was built there in the first place. To make the paper, they needed a natural water supply, and beneath was a chalk aquifer, which they could draw water from. Of course, the trouble with chalk, with pockets in it, is that every now and again it will collapse and a huge sink hole will appear. Not convinced I'd purchase one of the new houses!!

[Redfraggle]

I definitely wouldn't buy one of those houses - scary stuff

[giraffe]

....coming back from London. Been on our annual jaunt to a charity ball on Friday night, and a show on Saturday. We went to see Alan Aykbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval and it was very good. I also met up with some friends for lunch on Friday at St Pancras station.

[giraffe]

Off to London tomorrow. (yes I know I've only just come back!) K's school choir is performing at the last night of the schools prom at the Royal Albert Hall.

Having a bit of a manic week here as we are going up to York on Thursday night.

[Bunnylump]

Me too. I'm off to Dorset later in the week, then back, then to Wiltshire at the weekend. Think I'm on a tour of Britain at the moment!!

I got a thank you card from the CoPE group at school. It says

Dear Miss
Thank you for making cakes for our pink day. We raised £750-50 for breast cancer care.
That's an impressive total for selling cakes at lunchtime, isn't it?

[giraffe]

Next week is looking blissfully empty on the calendar..... (hope I haven't spoken too soon!)

[Redfraggle]

Went today to visit the Willow Club - a group of senior ladies in the church. They re-enacted an old school setting complete with cane. The look on our kids faces was priceless - one of them said when the 'teacher' was talking about using the cane 'un-bee-liev-able'. Another then said 'our teacher would NEVER let you hit us!' Absolutely hilarious

[Bunnylump]

We still had the cane when I was at school!! Boy, does that make me feel old!!

[clvrlad]

i missed it :-p
mind i was never that bad.... honest

[giraffe]

......to London and back. Got back at 2.15am (Yawning smiley) The concert was very good, K's school sang Somebody to Love, which was absolutely brilliant, and got the loudest applause of the night, and then sang with a Welsh deaf choir, and managed not to knock each other out with their signing. (I gather some of the rehearsals had a few near black eyes!) I've never been to the Royal Albert Hall before, so it was an experience just to be there, and I spent a nice afternoon in London with my sister and niece as it was my sisiter's birthday.