Saturday, December 11, 2004

Its Black, I'm Back

Yowzah, Yowzah. Yowzah!

After several days, that felt like weeks, of intermittent internet connection on borrowed connections I am back. What's happened in the intervening period, much excitement and wonderful newsworthy events. Well no not much anyway. Blunkett is still an arse and features in our office nativity scene as Joseph, dressed in batman outfit with Fathers 4 Justice on the front. Steve Bell's idea really, but I am sure he won't mind. Blunkey's line is "Who's the daddy?"

thewife is in chaotic thespian mode and to make matters worse has managed to persuade me to help move scenery and stuff. I believe it's called "crewing" and is carried out dressed in black under cover of darkness. I'm wondering if David Blunkett should know about this.

Her community drama group, Stagefright, are performing Alladin this year. It's been chaos all week, I have even had to turn my hand to ironing and the like, as thewife has been out every night, returning home exhausted long after I have gone to bed. Nevertheless its all good fun, my first night on the job was fraught with fraughtness. The 2 other stagehands seemed like seasoned pros down to the exaggerated campness. There was a lot more drama going on behind the scenes than out front. They managed to miss a whole scene but like the troupers they are, went on with it anyway. Theatre was full of noisy Brownies screaming through the whole show, so they didn't mind the missing scene.

I saw the actual performance from the front last night with Mumsy and the neighbours, and a jolly good show it was too.

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