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Post by CG on the loose on Sept 26, 2017 15:12:46 GMT
First day back in the London office post-holiday and so far I've knocked someone's glass of water all over their laptop and ... no, that's it.
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Post by mosiemo on Sept 26, 2017 16:31:48 GMT
Randy Rainbow cheers up a hopeless Tuesday: I love his videos and this is another great one. My favourite is 'Alternative Facts' which has the brilliant line to Kellyanne Conway - 'I wasn't laughing at you, sweetie, I was coughing...alternatively'
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 6:10:19 GMT
Lovely evening at the Ballet last night. Everything was beautiful. It seems you can get a row of mid-stalls seats to yourself at the BRB for a tenner.
Went for the Penguin Cafe, stayed for the Scott Joplin, even enjoyed the Shostakovich. There was a refresing absense of razzmatazz and flash. Little in the way of set. Just nice music and elegant dancers with their improbable bodies. Was nice to be at an event where no one spoke. 'Still Life at the Penguin Cafe' added a new layer of charm and wit to already very charming music. They had the ragtime band on stage for the Joplin, with a pianist wearing what appeared to be Tonyloco's avatar outfit. May very well head back at the weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 8:25:35 GMT
TFW you press "quote", rather than "edit".
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Post by michalnowicki on Sept 28, 2017 11:07:05 GMT
Back from London. Still have some reading to do on all of the posts I've missed over the last few days. I have loved every single thing I've seen (I'm very easy to please). I will be updating the relevant threads in the next few days. Now I'm back at work and getting myself mentally ready for a flight to Poland on Friday for my 10 years high school reunion on Saturday. It might be fun. Or I'll cringe to death.
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Post by CG on the loose on Sept 28, 2017 16:44:55 GMT
Upstairs in the overflow office today, which is spacious and quiet and half-dark because none of us felt like turning the lights on. Really rather soothing. Next, the Young Vic!
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 28, 2017 16:56:01 GMT
Upstairs in the overflow office today, which is spacious and quiet and half-dark Can you feel my envy? I spent 20 minutes in our nursery today and, as always happens when I am forced to be in contact with children under 5, acquired a cling-on who used my leg as a canvas for her delightful modern artwork, made entirely out of the the contents of her nose.
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Post by Dawnstar on Sept 28, 2017 19:46:40 GMT
Went for a walk round a local beech wood today. Lap 1 we passed a deceased pigeon. Lap 2 same pigeon but in pieces. I wonder which of the dogs being walked there decided to have an early dinner?!
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Post by showgirl on Sept 28, 2017 22:23:51 GMT
I begin to despair of ever sitting through an evening performance again as today was the FOURTH consecutive occasion in the last 2 weeks when I'd booked for something which had had good reviews and which I really wanted to see, but proved to be a great disappointment. It didn't help that each time I was also struggling to stay awake but I don't know which came first, the torpor or the lack of engagement with the production.
It can't be the type of thing I'm seeing as they were quite varied: an opera, a restoration comedy, a revival of a supposed modern classic and a new play. Maybe I'm jinxed but though I am known to leave at the interval if I don't think the production is worth the investment of further time, I've never had such a run of turkeys before.
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Post by Marwood on Sept 28, 2017 23:57:01 GMT
Went to see Sparks at Shepherds Bush Empire tonight, really enjoyed it - after seeing a few less than wonderful concerts recently (UNKLE at KOKO being the chief culprit) this reminded me what a tonic a good concert can be (and I now have a signed copy of Hippopotamus if anyone wants to buy it and reinvigorate my bank balance too...)
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Post by tonyloco on Sept 29, 2017 15:02:51 GMT
I've never had such a run of turkeys before. You are lucky. I find I get patches of 5* shows, followed by a long slump. Oddly, mid-July to late August seems to be the usual pattern. The solution is simple: just keep going to see 42nd Street!
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Post by showgirl on Sept 29, 2017 15:09:18 GMT
I've never had such a run of turkeys before. You are lucky. I find I get patches of 5* shows, followed by a long slump. Oddly, mid-July to late August seems to be the usual pattern. The solution is simple: just keep going to see 42nd Street! Ahem, I know it has its fans but once was enough for me. Had I to see any musical (or in this case, "play with music") again, I'd revisit Girl From The North Country, but my available slots are so few and precious that in practice I never see anything twice and find it very galling when I've agonised over all the competing claims, only for my choice to disappoint. Maybe I should ask for advice before deciding next time - I could hardly fare worse...
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Post by Tibidabo on Sept 29, 2017 15:31:08 GMT
Whoever thought up papier mache deserves to be encased in his own invention.
That is all.
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Post by tmesis on Sept 30, 2017 16:16:41 GMT
Here in Leafy Surrey I've just collected up six dustbin bags chock-full of conkers. I have a massive horse chestnut tree in my garden that is really high-maintenance, particularly if, like me, you loath gardening. Having said that it's a truly magnificent specimen (tree-surgeons go moist just looking at it) and even if I wanted to get rid of it I can't because there is a Tree Preservation Order on it.
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Post by theatremadness on Sept 30, 2017 17:00:55 GMT
I've been observing the Jewish festival Yom Kippur today which involves a food and drink fast for 25 hours, which began at 6.30pm last night. Into the last hour and a half (which is usually the hardest bit) and of course time feels like it's going slower than ever so trying to do as much as I can to take my mind off of it (this post really helped!!) but at least it does give time to reflect and begin the (Jewish) new year anew!
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 1, 2017 15:06:33 GMT
Mini Tibs has been for an 18 hour visit after her first week at uni. She's spent 12 of them sleeping, 2 of them eating, 1 of them printing stuff for lectures to save her printing credits, 1 of them adding all her expensive medical books to my Amazon basket and the other 2 in the shower endeavouring to get the gravy granules and whipped cream out of her hair. As you do.
It's been so lovely to see her......
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Post by mallardo on Oct 2, 2017 5:24:20 GMT
Tibidabo, you should write a book. Seriously.
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Post by anita on Oct 2, 2017 9:59:16 GMT
Phone call from my eldest son who lives in America with his wife & 3 year old son.- Woken at 2am by noise in their appartment. Investigates & finds terrified chipmunk charging about. Calms wife who has now been woken by rampage. As she has glaucoma it is left to my son to deal with. -[Not sure who is more frightened Chris or chipmunk]. Finally he corners it in bathroom. He creeps in expecting it to be in a corner but it isn't. It hides in bathrobes hanging on the door & leaps onto him. [ By this time I am having a hard job not to laugh as he tells me]. He finally gets it out of their flat. Son sleeps through it all.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 2, 2017 10:03:48 GMT
Haha! My best friend when I was a kid had pet chipmunks, they were MAD. I can't even imagine the chaos of trying to corner a wild one!
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Post by anita on Oct 2, 2017 10:13:21 GMT
By the time he'd clearer up the droppings [ the chipmunks!] he didn't get back to bed till nearly 5 & Stanley woke at 5.30.
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Post by londonmzfitz on Oct 2, 2017 12:23:19 GMT
Walking to my office in Bermondsey Street from London Bridge Station I had a rat run across from the opposite building site into my foot. Squeals loudly, then runs off into one of the tunnels.
Warm furry squealy rat.
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Post by Tibidabo on Oct 2, 2017 16:00:51 GMT
Remember on holiday listening to a lecture in a US National Park. Looked round, a chipmunk was on a log, listening too... Has anyone ever tried to swap kids for chipmunks do you think?
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Post by Dawnstar on Oct 2, 2017 18:58:19 GMT
I read this quote today: "An egotist is a person who talks about himself when you want to talk about yourself." Very true, especially on social media nowadays! (Though the annual I read it in was from 1915 so obviously it's been a problem for a long time!)
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Post by Marwood on Oct 2, 2017 21:54:43 GMT
To the NT for Steven Berkoff's Platform earlier this evening - the actual interview was quite interesting and entertaining (although Mr. Berkoff appeared to have eaten all the pies since I last saw him, and his sense of dress was er, 'interesting' for an 80 year old man) When it came to the book signing after, it seemed to take an eternity to get to meet him. When I got to him, I decided I didn't really have much to say to him or ask him (I don't think he would be wanting to share his Octopussy and Beverley Hills Cop memories), and as I didn't want the book signed to me or anyone I know I just said 'Hello, good evening' to which he just glowered at me, took the book, signed it and handed it back without saying anything.
Not the most enlightening of encounters I've had with a celebrity (I think the time I said 'alright?' to Mickey Rourke in a corridor at Curzon Soho following a screening of The Wrestler was more rewarding), and maybe the large glass of red wine and miniature of Scotch he had balanced on the table while he was signing might have contributed to his state of mind (his signature looks awfully squiggly and spidery) but I really did wish I hadn't bothered buying the book. I was tempted to suggest he writes a play where the protagonist has to get a book surgically removed from a place that made his eyes water, but onwards and upwards, I'll just have to hope there is a big market for such a collectible signed book. Not counting on it though...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2017 4:53:08 GMT
What a godawful loss Tom Petty is.
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