Horrible journey back from York on Weds. Hours and hours on the coach. The only redeeming thing about it is the price! Came back to find my own hot water tank broken after having spent four days a daughter's boiling water for washing as theirs is broken too!
So it's carting buckets of water up my stairs until monday when the plumber comes.

Beautiful day today. So why am I still sitting in front of thsi pc screen I ask myself. Self I say, go out and enjoy the sunshine. It's payday!!!! Wahay!

Dentist says mouth is healing nicely after op. Still bleeding hurts a lot though!
Fluffy white clouds and blue skies, the grass is two feet high. Oh no. You now what this means don't you? I have to go round to all my friends trying to blag a strimmer as mine got nicked out of my garen shed last summer.
Will soon be doing one of my favourite activities, blagging props for a play.

Was once nicknamed Queen Blagger of The Arden Theatre by my am dram group as have the communicative and blagging skills of a polite rhino!

Hubby has landed role of Pike in new stage production of Dad's Army.

Some props I have had to find in the past:
six full sets of Roman armour,
a donkey,
stones,
crosses,
for Life Of Brian.

A large cow(made that),
and evil rabbit,
umpteen swords and
chain mail for Arthur's knights,
mud,
bloodied limbs for the Black Knight,
for Holy Grail.

An oran utang costume,
giant peanuts,
a dragon,
deaths head,
for Guards Guards

Alien helmets,
a time machine,
bags of cocaine
for Inspector Drake

a blow up rubber doll,
a whip,
handcuffs
a telegraph pole
for Fur Coat and No Knickers

The lampost
nine pine trees
bows and arrows,
swords
a wardrobe,
fur coats,
flowers to turn winter into spring,
for The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe.

Love it!!!!!!

A lot of plays involve food: in Dead Funny I had to make a load of custard pies and a trifle for a food fight.
On the first night there were custard pies all over the place, cleared up most of them but did not notice the one on the stage left wall.
It slid slowly down the wall during the night, activating the alarm, the police were called, they found a baby doll in a pram backstage which shocked them somewhat. To this day i have not owned up that it was the pie which caused the incident!

Looking forward to Dad's Army, hope I can be on the crew. Doing an Agatha Christie as crew in July.
Would love to do Birdcage (Le Cage Aux Folles) on stage, but can only find the original stage script in french!
Right, enough rambling, am off to town.