Hi Diddly Dee, an Actor's Life for Me
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He's behind you!
I was sorry to miss pre-Christmas drinkies on Saturday, but as I explained to Maisy I was in West Sussex being Father Christmas and a 7 foot goose. Ah yes - the panto season is upon us! Funnily enough I am actually now in a Christmassy frame of mind. I was expecting to be all Christmassed out by now (Oh yes I was! Oh no I wasn't!) but it hasn't happened yet. In fact, I have spent the evening so far putting up christmas lights and decorating my tree while listening to '50 Festive Hits', which was purchased in a very drunken state a few years ago... My Canadian friend Amy always used to disappear back to the motherland very early in December, so we (the 4 girls that lived in the house) would generally have our christmas meal, drink obscene amounts of cocktails and get into the festive spirit far too early. This particular year, we were absolutely ratted well before it got dark (oh dear...) and managed to run out of booze. After a drunken phone call to my brother to ask him the ingredients of a cosmopolitan, we decided to go to Sainsburys for supplies. Still wearing our party hats and christmas baubles we ventured out onto Kilburn High Road. As we passed Woolies I heard the strains of Merry Xmas Everybody coming out of the door and with a whoop of joy I danced in and tried to purchase a CD of Christmas music to complete our drunken festivities. However - shock! horror! - there were no cheesy Christmas CDs on the shelves. Having lost all sense of dignity a good few hours before, I marched up to the counter and demanded to know which album they were playing over the sound system. I think the young man behind the counter was a little unnerved by my Quorn chef's hat and flashing novelty earrings, but he very politely told me that this was the only copy they had. However, he was MORE than willing to sell it to me (he'd evidently had enough of such gems as Wombling Merry Christmas and The Millennium Prayer - can't think why!) The look of joyous relief on his face as I disappeared out of the shop was one of the best things I've seen in a long time... |
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6.12.04 23:24 |
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Just off to see a man about a tractor...
I have spent today driving around the country (again) visiting my various charges as they do their pantos. The Essex team did brighten my day though.... They were due to do a show at 1.15 at a prep school in Hemel Hempstead, and I planned to meet them there. After getting a little bit lost and ending up down a farm track, I eventually found the school and was told that the team had phoned to say they were stuck in traffic and might be 10 mins late. Okey dokey - I settle down with a cup of tea and prepare to wait for them. By half past the headmistress is looking rather edgy and some daft teachers have already sat their 2-year-old charges down in the hall and are now having trouble keeping them entertained. So I ring the team to find out where they are... They'd gone down the same farm track that I had - and had grounded the car completely! So I leap into my car and zoom down the hill to pick them, their set and props up. Thank God I was there, because they were a mile down the hill from the school and there was no way they'd have got all the set and props up there via shanks pony. Once I'd got them up to the school I then headed back down to see if I could get the car dislodged. I called on the very friendly people in the Farm Trust buildings and they gave a good old push, but the car was going absolutely nowhere. I was about to give up and call the RAC when one of the Farm Trust people suggests calling Paul - 'he's very practical, you know...' ...And so he proved to be! Not only did he have a good idea about cars, but he also had a tractor and a great big chain (ooer, missus) with which to drag the car out of the mud. So a big THANK YOU to Paul and all at the Box Farm Trust - we promise not to do it again.... |
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9.12.04 21:54 |
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Happy New Year!
I know I'm a bit early, but I'm off to the Peak District and will be incommunicado, so have a great time on New Year's Eve, whatever you're up to, and I'll see y'all in 2005... xxx |
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