In the midst of a dark world and subsequent high-anxiety mindset, I have to take my
Wonders where I can find them.
( Read more... )Many
strikes are happening around here; we're a deeply uneasy, upset, angry society at the moment. So I should hasten to say that I respect Mick Lynch and his merry band of pickets and wish them well in their efforts against an intransigent and possibly dishonest press and government. BUT ...
( Read more... )Theatres, or rather, the squashing of our theatre-visits into one frantic week, so as to avoid next week's cleverly-constructed week of strategically-placed 48-hour strikes.
So -
+ Tuesday evening we take two trains (and a short rush on foot from Waterloo-East to Waterloo) to Richmond Orange Tree Theatre to see
Arms and the Man. And very good value fun it was too!
+ Wednesday afternoon we slot-in a visit to a new venue - Marylebone Theatre - to see
A Sherlock Carol. This was a joyous mashup of Dickens and Doyle, wherein Holmes is called in to investigate the possibly-suspicious death of one, Ebeneezer Scrooge, a local benefactor.
+ Thursday, we cheated twice - by (a) avoiding the railways altogether in favour of our local cinema where we attended (b) the Royal Opera House's livestream of
The Nutcracker, as is traditional for us. It was its usual sumptuous self, but there were a few livestream-glitches which were disturbingly reminiscent of
Eastenders catchups on our own ancient, hiccuppy desktop computer.
And now - the other stuff, that comes under the heading ....
.... of
Miscellania (which, by the way, is NOT in this instance, an island kingdom in the Lunar Sea in ORS; but rather a plethora of miscellaneousnesses)?
Well, we're cheating again next Wednesday and going to the Fairfield Halls by bus to see a panto -
The Further Adventures of Peter Pan – The Return of Captain Hook, starring Ricky Champ (yup, that's Psycho Stu out of Eastenders).
Then there's the World Cup (which we really oughtn't to be watching this time for Reasons, but which we have somehow become drawn into. Will England prevail tonight? They're already one goal down ...
Apart from that, it's just Christmas, looming along with its own freight of anxieties. Will all the post get through, given that there's an intermittent postal strike going on in the sorting offices? And what about the TURKEY? Will guinea fowl do if there's a shortage? And how do I use Amazon to send to my cousin within the EU, and avoid her having to pay tariffs approximately to the value of her present to ransom it from Customs?
In fact it's not very Merry this year. At All. I shall just have to resort to telly-watching ... I hear there may be
Wonders this Yule season!
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