The workers are back to work tomorrow; there have been lots of Bank Holidays this Christmas; as Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year's Day were on weekend days, 3 Bank Holidays were given in lieu.
We get an additional Bank Holiday this year for our royal wedding in April.
Is Britain the only country to have public holidays called Bank Holidays?
New Year was my worst in years; in bed bored as H1 did not want to play out.
However the Viennese Gala at the Sage on New Year's Day was even better than last year; as a concert hall, the Sage's Hall 1 is unsurpassed; it is the home of the Northern Sinfonia Orchestra who played so much of the Strauss and Vilja that always played in my childhood home.
'Jack and the Beanstalk' pantomime at the Tyne Theatre (on Westgate Road if you are reading this from afar!) was the best there in years; well done to Brendan Healey producer of a traditional, funpoking, audience-participating panto with Catherine McCabe as a superb Jack. Oh yes she was!
I am listening to so many lines being learned by thespians in this house ....yawn....a walk today with C. and D3 was a blessing and awakening.
The snow has gone so inspite of low temperatures, I need to be out in my garden.....
Showing posts with label Pantomime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pantomime. Show all posts
Monday, 3 January 2011
Friday, 10 December 2010
A don't like these tights!
Oh no I don't!
I've been to the pantomime 'Robin Hood' at the Theatre Royal and the children I was with loved it; the 3D part was screamingly funny! Such an initiation into theatre. I love watching their surprised faces as the audience erupts into baddie boos and hisses and the traditional calls of 'Behind you' and 'Oh no you can't ' etc. Robin hated his tights and I disliked my thermal, long johns the following day- I know- too much information.
N&N's meeting on Lord Armstrong at the Rugby Club was local and walkable in the deep midwinter snow; better still was our group's walk from the Hearth through Horsley Woods, skirting along the banks of the (frozen) Tyne; we circled back to hot pea and ham soup and a brilliant Christmas party; so much variety and talent in the 'party pieces' which were offered- poems, flute, northumbrian pipes, concertina, readings, carols and a quiz.
It must be bitterly cold here when the national media put out requests asking Geordies to put on coats if they are going out gallivanting for the night (cos we're hard us!!) Certainly, icicles decorate every gutter and dirty snow heaps decorate every pavement (often by drivers who forget about pedestrians)
The city is feeling embarrassment and disgust at the way Toon manager Chris Hughton has been so badly treated; his loyalty and hard work have brought stability and teamwork back to United but his reward is to be finished by Mike Ashley. I dream of Ashley walking into St James Park to find the stadium is completely EMPTY
I've been to the pantomime 'Robin Hood' at the Theatre Royal and the children I was with loved it; the 3D part was screamingly funny! Such an initiation into theatre. I love watching their surprised faces as the audience erupts into baddie boos and hisses and the traditional calls of 'Behind you' and 'Oh no you can't ' etc. Robin hated his tights and I disliked my thermal, long johns the following day- I know- too much information.
N&N's meeting on Lord Armstrong at the Rugby Club was local and walkable in the deep midwinter snow; better still was our group's walk from the Hearth through Horsley Woods, skirting along the banks of the (frozen) Tyne; we circled back to hot pea and ham soup and a brilliant Christmas party; so much variety and talent in the 'party pieces' which were offered- poems, flute, northumbrian pipes, concertina, readings, carols and a quiz.
It must be bitterly cold here when the national media put out requests asking Geordies to put on coats if they are going out gallivanting for the night (cos we're hard us!!) Certainly, icicles decorate every gutter and dirty snow heaps decorate every pavement (often by drivers who forget about pedestrians)
The city is feeling embarrassment and disgust at the way Toon manager Chris Hughton has been so badly treated; his loyalty and hard work have brought stability and teamwork back to United but his reward is to be finished by Mike Ashley. I dream of Ashley walking into St James Park to find the stadium is completely EMPTY
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